[santhoshkumar-dev]

What

Add FT_Load_Char to the existing libSceFreeType guest bridge. It delegates character lookup, the direct glyph-index fallback for faces without a charmap, and load/render flags to bundled FreeType, then refreshes the guest glyph slot on success or error. Its LP64 character argument uses the same low-32-bit conversion as the existing FT_Get_Char_Index adapter.

The name/NID wPQ0rMK4-JU is present in the PS5 3.20 inventory. Behavior follows bundled FreeType 2.13.3 FT_Load_Char. Console-version and ABI uncertainty remains as recorded in the existing library debt.

Tested

Windows 11 x64, WinLibs MinGW-w64 GCC 15.2.0 r7, Release, BUILD_TESTING=ON, based on upstream 35fa2bdd82.

• Full project build passed; registered guest_freetype passed (0.07 s).
• The existing regression compares all mirrored slot fields, outline points, metrics and bitmap bytes with native FreeType. New cases cover mapped and missing characters, high character-code bits, unscaled/unhinted/render loads, a null face, and a font whose cmap directory entry is renamed to make it absent. Without a charmap, glyph 1 loads directly and out-of-range glyph 2 returns the native error and slot state.
• A compiled source mutation that always performs a charmap lookup fails the new no-charmap case.
• Strict -Wall -Wextra -Werror syntax checks and conventions passed.
• Temporarily merged feat(libSceFreeType): support memory fonts and face cleanup #8247, feat(libSceFreeType): select and iterate character maps #8253 and feat(libSceFreeType): copy and convert guest bitmaps #8286 without committing; all FreeType targets built and guest_freetype_bitmap, guest_freetype and guest_freetype_charmap passed (0.06 s / 0.08 s / 0.07 s). Aborted the merge afterward.
• Restored and rebuilt the independent branch: guest_freetype passed again (0.09 s), and the patched PRX exports wPQ0rMK4-JU.
• Final open-PR overlap check: No overlap with open pull requests. Open, closed and merged FreeType history was reviewed before implementation.

Latest main e9a5a0c849 was checked before publication; it changes no FreeType or libc dependency source.

No title, PS5 hardware or Linux runtime was tested.

Refresh on 2026-10-21: rebased onto upstream 1381826358, rebuilt the FreeType library and both current test targets, and reran guest_freetype and guest_freetype_charmap (0.08 s / 0.07 s). Conventions passed. Production behavior is unchanged.

Compatibility validation (2026-10-21): temporarily combined this PR with #8247, #8286, #9045, #9054, #9064 and the charmap-metadata follow-up on main 3e91c8edf5. All system libraries built and all seven FreeType tests passed. The C++ changes merged cleanly; temporary CMake/debt resolutions were used only for this local compatibility check and are not published.

Checklist

• Based on current main; no other open PR implements the same functions
• One topic per PR; follow-ups go in a new PR
• No comments in code except technical debt
• Unimplemented paths throw (NotImplemented_nid_no_patch); silent stubs are listed under Silent stubs in their library's technical debt file
• No notes, investigation .md files or images added to the repository (attach them to this PR)
• New third-party code is a submodule built from source
• Generic behaviour, not specific to one title
• Depends on: none
• Fixes: none
• Unblocks: none
• GPUs tested: n/a
• AI-assisted: yes

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Progress report (b6fe513 → f43de1f)

📈 System libraries: 50.59% (+0.01%, +1 implemented functions)

✅ 1 implemented

Library	Name
libSceFreeType	FT_Load_Char_nid_postfix

[adriadam10]

Checked the FT_Load_Char adapter against FreeType 2.13.3 (low-32-bit charcode, slot sync on error, null face), and that guest_freetype compares slot, outline and bitmap with native FreeType, including the no-cmap case and high character-code bits; merged.