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How to Display Japanese in egui

Get the egui sample

You can run the egui sample using the following commands:

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git clone https://github.com/emilk/eframe_template/ egui_test
cd egui_test
cargo run

Load a Japanese-compatible font

To display Japanese, you need to load a Japanese-compatible font.

Add the following lines inside the pub fn new method in src/app.rs.

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// Load a Japanese-compatible font
let mut fonts = egui::FontDefinitions::default();
fonts.font_data.insert(
    "Meiryo".to_owned(),
    egui::FontData::from_static(include_bytes!("C:/Windows/Fonts/Meiryo.ttc")),
);
fonts
    .families
    .entry(egui::FontFamily::Proportional)
    .or_default()
    .insert(0, "Meiryo".to_owned());
cc.egui_ctx.set_fonts(fonts);

Now you can display Japanese.

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