[Feature Request] Support for Korean characters in TextDraw

[nomaddev1]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm currently developing a SA-MP roleplay server in Korea, and one major issue we're facing is that TextDraw does not support Korean characters. This makes it extremely difficult for players who are not fluent in English to interact with in-game menus or use items properly. Since TextDraw is a core part of UI design in SA-MP, this is a significant limitation for Korean-language communities.

Describe the solution you'd like
We would greatly appreciate support for rendering Korean characters in TextDraw, either through Unicode/UTF-8 support or through a bitmap font solution that can handle Hangul glyphs. Even partial support (such as a font system allowing us to define our own character mappings) would be a massive improvement.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• We've attempted to use predefined English letters as symbols to represent Korean, but this results in a very poor user experience.
• Using images for UI is possible, but very limiting and inflexible for dynamic content.
• Switching to full CEF-based UI for all functions is another route, but we'd prefer to keep native SA-MP UI where possible.

Additional context
There is a growing SA-MP community in Korea, and Korean language support would make open.mp far more accessible and appealing. If this kind of update requires additional development time or funding, I would be happy to support it through a donation.

Thank you for considering this request!

[NexiusTailer]

This functionality should likely be handled on client side and via an external serverside plugin. Let me try to draw some analogy with the RU community and how exactly we solve similar problems with displaying cyrillic in textdraws, menus and gametexts:

1. The main component is russifier, which adds our language to the game; it's a gta sa modification which is to be installed in the game directory and which sets the standard character mapping adhered by serverside solution, in our case it's SanLtd modification (if running bare EU/US GTA SA with no such additions, nothing can be done from the server later and the text will look gibberish in any case).
2. The serverside solution just hooks textdraws, menus and gametexts natives, translating characters according to the standard set by the mentioned client mod that adds RU language. Serverside plugin that we use is rustext, which actually support multiple variants of character sets, because there are actually more than one client mod which adds RU lang (but still the default is SanLtd).

As you see, both parts of the whole solution not really related to omp server itself. Moreover, since the game is not translated into our languages initially, any custom translations are done as client modifications and there can be more than single one of them available. IMO, merging such functionality into the omp server looks weird. The current way with client mod + server plugin has been considered normal for decades in our case, and I suppose your case may be similar.

[nomaddev1]

Hi NexiusTailer,

Thank you for your detailed explanation on issue #1110.
I'm the developer working on the Korean SA-MP server and I really appreciate the insight you've shared regarding the RU community's solution.

I'd love to get your help or guidance on how to implement a similar system for Korean characters.
I’m especially interested in:

How the SanLtd client mod works

How rustext is set up and used

If a similar plugin could be created for Korean, perhaps with Hangul font mapping

If you're open to it, I’d be happy to continue the conversation here or even through Discord or email. I’m also willing to support this development effort financially if needed.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thanks again,