Ignore keyboard restrictions from games on OSK input

[asferot]

Just noticed that text input in MHP3rd had only Japanese and English full-width input sets. What happened to the other? I remember there was half-width/normal English and Russian too.

Affected version is latest stable 1.5.4. It worked in 1.4.2.

[unknownbrackets]

When asking for a keyboard to be shown, games can specify what characters they support. Previously, we were ignoring this, but now we respect it (although we're still not quite as restrictive as the PSP.)

One reason this matters is for passwords, because games will support the password only with the exact right characters (since that was all you were able to type on a real PSP.)

It was also causing bugs in some games when you typed characters that the game didn't expect or properly support.

So - this is a feature, not a bug. It now acts more like it did on a PSP.

-[Unknown]

[asferot]

Im guessing there is no way to enable all character sets manually for certain games? A .ini tweak or something?

[unknownbrackets]

There's no option currently - did Russian even properly render? It wouldn't be shocking if the game didn't have the font handling for it.

-[Unknown]

[asferot]

Russian rendered fine, just looked like full-width font. Korean did not render at all, it just showed <?> symbols, but normal English looks way better than full-width. and I never had any problems with it.

[Abbanon]

Having a way to re-enable the "half-width" English font would be amazing, either by PPSSPP settings or modifying a file. Hoping this gets re-implemented either way.

[unknownbrackets]

Can this just be solved by cwcheat?

PPSSPP's job is to do things like a PSP would, and it's doing it. I think a setting for this would be confusing and bring back issues with other games because people wouldn't understand it.

Seems more appropriate to patch the game that is incorrectly saying it doesn't support half-width characters, Japanese characters, or etc.

-[Unknown]