If you use custom font images that assigns the £ sign to it's correct char code (163) it shows in the default AppGameKit font when you want do display it. This causes a problem when you use functions like GetInAppPurchaseLocalPrice() because the £ sign is included in the returned string so you end up with the £ sign being displayed in the AppGameKit font and the price showing in your custom font, these are often different sizes on the screen so looks messy and mis-aligned.
To get around it for my project I've had to do some ReplaceString calls to the returned string before displaying it. I believe it's the second ReplaceString in the example below that actually works.
price1$ = ReplaceString(GetInAppPurchaseLocalPrice(1), "£", "", -1)
price1$ = ReplaceString(price1$, chr(163), "", -1)
SetTextString(txtMenuItemRight[2, 1], price1$)
This is fine for the £ sign but there's a number of other currency signs that will probably cause problems so will require a dozen or so ReplaceStrings removing all currency signs.
In the custom font project enclosed with AppGameKit you have assigned the £ sign to char(38). This is doable for all currency signs but doing so means we're replacing other characters that we might need, i.e. I could replace the [ character with the ¥ currency symbol but if I later need the [ sign it won't be available. You'd still need ReplaceStrings though i.e.
price$1 = ReplaceString(GetInAppPurchaseLocalPrice(1), chr(163), chr(38), -1) // Changing correct £ character to position 38 in the custom font image which should be &
price$1 = ReplaceString(price1$, chr(165), chr(91), -1) // Changing the correct ¥ to position 91 in the custom font image which should be [
Can we get the full ascii code added to AppGameKit so that we don't have to do fixes like this?
This thread has an example program that only shows a limited character set is supported: https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/192586#msg2295990
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