XNA - just a few more characters accepted in a SpriteFont

Question

I have a SpriteFont in XNA, which has the standard 126 characters that are usable.

However i would like to use the "ಠ" symbol in the game.

So is there anyway of adding just a few more symbols that the spritefont accepts?

Cheers, Randomman159

Answer 1

Modify the sprite font file. It's XML. Double click it in Visual Studio.

Towards the bottom of the default file is a the following:

<CharacterRegions>
  <CharacterRegion>
    <Start>&#32;</Start>
    <End>&#126;</End>
  </CharacterRegion>
</CharacterRegions>

Your character is unicode code point U+0CA0, which in decimal is 3232. So add another character region tag that contains it:

  <CharacterRegion>
    <Start>&#3232;</Start>
    <End>&#3232;</End>
  </CharacterRegion>

This assumes that the ಠ symbol exists in the font you are using.