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I would like to use japanese fonts but the font tool is not properly encoding the fonts.
Anybody know of any workarounds? Any plans to fix this?

There aren't really any direct workarounds, because of how the font system works (it's designed primarily for ASCII characters), and I don't see it being fixed any time soon either :(

I don't know how Japanese works that well, but the nearest thing you could do would be to map Japanese glyphs to ASCII-set characters and handle it that way (but that would mean doing it manually)

Or even creating the images you need with complete words/phrases in your favourite image tool.

You could also try to use the canvas APIs own text drawing functions, instead of using bitmap fonts:

ig.system.context.fillStyle = '#f0f';
ig.system.context.fillText( 'test', x, y ); 

@Arantor Thanks for the suggestion I might use that in some cases where I need a really customized text option.

@dominic Thanks I tried using the canvas APIs and it worked fine. Will use this as a solution for now.

If I had access to the font tool I would like to try to fix this someday because, I probably wont be the last person to ask about this but alas...