TTF_SetFontLanguage(3)

📦 version 3.2.2, in debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ TTF_SetFontLanguage ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the TTF_SetFontLanguage(3) page — it lives in the SDL_ttf3 FUNCTIONS family and it's literally the little switch that tells a font what language it should be text-shaping in 🌸

🎀 NAME 🎀

TTF_SetFontLanguage — set the language that's gonna be used for text shaping by a font 💅

📁 HEADER FILE 📁

defined in SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h — that's the one you're including, no cap 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include "SDL3_ttf/SDL_ttf.h"

bool TTF_SetFontLanguage(TTF_Font *font, const char *language_bcp47);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea 🍓 — if SDL_ttf was not built with HarfBuzz support, this function just returns false. that's it, that's the whole vibe, no HarfBuzz no language shaping, sorry babe 😭

and also — this updates any TTF_Text objects that are using this font. so like, every text already chillin' with that font gets the memo too 👑

🌸 FUNCTION PARAMETERS 🌸

  • font — the font you're specifying a language for. the main character here 💅
  • language_bcp47 — a null-terminated string containing the desired language's BCP47 code ✨ or null to reset the value back to nothing 🧚

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

returns true on success or false on failure 💀 and if it fails, go call SDL_GetError() for more info, she'll tell you everything you need to know 🙈

🦋 THREAD SAFETY 🦋

this one has rules, bestie — call it on the thread that created the font. same thread, no exceptions, that's the vibe check 👑

🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

this function is available since SDL-ttf 3.0.0 ⭐

and that's the whole page, you ate it fr fr 💖 this lil gem came to you from SDL_ttf 3.2.2 — go forth and shape some text, bestie 🎀🫶

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