diff -r b248ef500557 -r f69a1f0382ce extra/pygame_font_render_glyph.patch
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/extra/pygame_font_render_glyph.patch	Mon Oct 10 22:20:59 2011 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+# Add Font.render_glyph() method to PyGame.
+#
+# This is nicer than full string rendering, as Tuikit renders screen
+# one character at the time and render_glyph is optimized for caching.
+# See documentation for TTF_RenderGlyph_Shaded and TTF_GlyphMetrics.
+#
+# Radek Brich <radek.brich@devl.cz>
+diff -rupd pygame-1.9.1release/src/font.c pygame-1.9.1release-my/src/font.c
+--- pygame-1.9.1release/src/font.c	2009-06-17 01:18:34.000000000 +0200
++++ pygame-1.9.1release-my/src/font.c	2011-10-09 23:19:46.000000000 +0200
+@@ -371,6 +371,78 @@ font_render (PyObject* self, PyObject* a
+ }
+ 
+ static PyObject*
++font_render_glyph (PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
++{
++    TTF_Font* font = PyFont_AsFont (self);
++    int aa;
++    PyObject* text, *final;
++    PyObject* fg_rgba_obj, *bg_rgba_obj = NULL;
++    Uint8 rgba[4];
++    SDL_Surface* surf;
++    SDL_Color foreg, backg;
++
++    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple (args, "OiO|O", &text, &aa, &fg_rgba_obj,
++                           &bg_rgba_obj))
++        return NULL;
++
++    if (!RGBAFromColorObj (fg_rgba_obj, rgba))
++        return RAISE (PyExc_TypeError, "Invalid foreground RGBA argument");
++    foreg.r = rgba[0];
++    foreg.g = rgba[1];
++    foreg.b = rgba[2];
++    if (bg_rgba_obj)
++    {
++        if (!RGBAFromColorObj (bg_rgba_obj, rgba))
++            return RAISE (PyExc_TypeError, "Invalid background RGBA argument");
++        backg.r = rgba[0];
++        backg.g = rgba[1];
++        backg.b = rgba[2];
++        backg.unused = 0;
++    }
++    else
++    {
++        backg.r = 0;
++        backg.g = 0;
++        backg.b = 0;
++        backg.unused = 0;
++    }
++
++    if (PyUnicode_Check (text) && PyObject_Length (text) == 1)
++    {
++        Py_UNICODE *buf = PyUnicode_AsUnicode (text);
++        Uint16 ch = (Uint16) buf[0];
++
++        if (aa)
++        {
++            if (!bg_rgba_obj)
++                surf = TTF_RenderGlyph_Blended (font, ch, foreg);
++            else
++                surf = TTF_RenderGlyph_Shaded (font, ch, foreg, backg);
++        }
++        else
++            surf = TTF_RenderGlyph_Solid (font, ch, foreg);
++    }
++    else
++        return RAISE (PyExc_TypeError, "char must be string of exactly one unicode character");
++
++    if (!surf)
++        return RAISE (PyExc_SDLError, TTF_GetError());
++
++    if (!aa && bg_rgba_obj) /*turn off transparancy*/
++    {
++        SDL_SetColorKey (surf, 0, 0);
++        surf->format->palette->colors[0].r = backg.r;
++        surf->format->palette->colors[0].g = backg.g;
++        surf->format->palette->colors[0].b = backg.b;
++    }
++
++    final = PySurface_New (surf);
++    if (!final)
++        SDL_FreeSurface (surf);
++    return final;
++}
++
++static PyObject*
+ font_size (PyObject* self, PyObject* args)
+ {
+     TTF_Font* font = PyFont_AsFont (self);
+@@ -509,6 +581,7 @@ static PyMethodDef font_methods[] =
+ 
+     { "metrics", font_metrics, METH_VARARGS, DOC_FONTMETRICS },
+     { "render", font_render, METH_VARARGS, DOC_FONTRENDER },
++    { "render_glyph", font_render_glyph, METH_VARARGS, DOC_FONTRENDERGLYPH },
+     { "size", font_size, METH_VARARGS, DOC_FONTSIZE },
+ 
+     { NULL, NULL, 0, NULL }
+diff -rupd pygame-1.9.1release/src/pygamedocs.h pygame-1.9.1release-my/src/pygamedocs.h
+--- pygame-1.9.1release/src/pygamedocs.h	2009-06-19 08:20:25.000000000 +0200
++++ pygame-1.9.1release-my/src/pygamedocs.h	2011-10-09 23:27:34.000000000 +0200
+@@ -299,6 +299,8 @@
+ 
+ #define DOC_FONTRENDER "Font.render(text, antialias, color, background=None): return Surface\ndraw text on a new Surface"
+ 
++#define DOC_FONTRENDERGLYPH "Font.render_glyph(char, antialias, color, background=None): return Surface\ndraw glyph of char on a new Surface"
++
+ #define DOC_FONTSIZE "Font.size(text): return (width, height)\ndetermine the amount of space needed to render text"
+ 
+ #define DOC_FONTSETUNDERLINE "Font.set_underline(bool): return None\ncontrol if text is rendered with an underline"