Version v3.3.0

UniText Documentation

Name: UniText
Author: Eow

Industrial-grade Unicode text engine for Unity. Complete API reference, guides, and examples for building world-class text rendering.

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Quick Start

Get up and running with UniText in 5 minutes

API Reference

Complete API documentation for all public types

Key Features

150+ Languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, CJK, and every other Unicode script. One component, automatic font fallback

Full BiDi

Mixed LTR/RTL with numbers and punctuation renders correctly (UAX #9)

Native Color Emoji

ZWJ sequences, skin tones, flags via system fonts. Zero extra build size

SDF & MSDF Rendering

Curve-based Burst-compiled rasterization. Shared Texture2DArray atlas with adaptive tile sizes, reference counting, and LRU eviction

Font Families

CSS §5.2 weight matching, variable font axes (wght, wdth, ital, slnt, opsz), three-tier resolution: variable axes → static faces → synthesis

Effects

Outline and shadow via multi-pass SDF. <outline> <shadow> tags with color, dilate, offset, softness

Extensible Markup

30+ modifier presets, Markdown (**bold**, *italic*), custom parse rules, shared configurations

Interactive Text

Clickable/hoverable regions with typed events and highlight system

Word Segmentation

Dictionary-based word breaking for Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar

UniTextWorld

3D text without Canvas — full pipeline via MeshRenderer

Zstd Compression

~2.7x smaller builds for Latin/Arabic, ~1.3x for CJK

Editor UX

Style selector with ~30 presets, font family inspector, glyph picker, atlas preview

API by Category

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Components

22 types

Text components and their entry points

Markup

60 types

Markup parsing, parse rules and text ranges

Modifiers

127 types

Modifiers, styles and style presets

Paint

42 types

Fills, gradients, glow, shadows and other paint layers

Animation

55 types

Animated modifiers, reveal handlers and Animator integration

Fonts

25 types

Fonts, faces, glyphs and atlases

Layout

51 types

Shaping, line layout, alignment and hit testing

Editing

78 types

Input behaviors, filters, validation and text documents

Selection

31 types

Selection, caret, touch handles and context menus

Interaction

46 types

Links, gestures, range actions and pointer-driven ranges

Media

22 types

Inline sprites, objects and their providers

Clipboard

19 types

Copy and paste adapters, clipboard formats and schemas

Emoji

3 types

Color emoji fonts

Platform

24 types

Native input, IME and clipboard backends

Utilities

13 types

Attributes, Unicode data and helpers