Font Fixer

Summary

This mod fixes and extends the Font Renderer in Legacy versions of Minecraft by essentially backporting a newer version of the `FontRenderer` class (1.5.2 was used as the base in version 1; 1.12.2 is used as the base in version 2).

Details

In particular, the following bugs have been fixed and features have been added: - Fix the text width calculation and shadows when rendering non-ASCII characters - Change Font height to 9 instead of 8 - Add support for glyphs/unicode characters - Add missing formatting and color codes

Installation

As a ModLoaderMP / Forge mod

This mod needs to be installed as a jar-mod. That means, you have to... 1. Be sure to back up your `minecraft.jar`! 2. Extract the content of the mod zip into the `minecraft.jar` file 3. Delete the `META-INF` folder in there 4. Overwrite any existing files when doing so! 5. ??? 6. Profit!

As a Fabric mod

Just place the mod file in your mods folder :)

Issues

- Some 2 versions have minor issues with Font Fixer installed (e.g., custom fonts do not work) - ~~Some unicode characters could not be rendered~~ - this has been fixed in version 2!