Rendering text fails when NOT initializing with SDL_INIT_GAMECONTROLLER

[hsbgit]

This is my current setup:

Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS Release: 20.04 Codename: focal Running in a virtualbox

I am using the official SDL2 packages from the Ubuntu repos -> libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0

I realized that my font is only visible when calling SDL_Init like this

SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_AUDIO | SDL_INIT_GAMECONTROLLER)

When I remove 'SDL_INIT_GAMECONTROLLER' my text is not rendered anymore.

Is this problem maybe related to this one: SDL_Init() with SDL_INIT_GAMECONTROLLER flag changes locale ?

I used the same code on past Ubuntu versions also with virtual box and it worked fine.

[1bsyl]

Looks strange, it works without using SDL_INIT_GAMECONTROLLER can you check with latest version of SDL2 and SDL2_ttf

[hsbgit]

It may take some time as I am currently quite busy... but I will try

[slouken]

I suspect this is just an environment issue with your VM.

This code in hid_init() is probably what's fixing your font rendering:

    /* Set the locale if it's not set. */
    locale = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, NULL);
    if (!locale)
        setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");

If you do this in the shell before running your test program, does it work? export LC_CTYPE=""

[smcv]

setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");

That doesn't mean "set locale to the empty string", it means "set locale to something determined by looking at environment variables".

[smcv]

my font is only visible when...

What specific text are you rendering, and what specific API are you using to do it?

[slouken]

There hasn't been any response, so I'm going ahead and closing this. Feel free to reopen it if you come back with more information.