Author Topic: UTF-8 text conversion is needed for non-English installations  (Read 4872 times)

Offline agb1

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UTF-8 text conversion is needed for non-English installations
« on: December 08, 2016, 11:25:14 AM »
An Enhanced Edition user with Polish language encountered a crash caused by this mod.  http://gibberlings3.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=28161&page=49#entry249321

I believe the cause of the crash is that the text installed by this mod is ANSI encoded, whereas EE games that aren't using English language require text to be encoded as UTF-8.

I have added a patch for Reunion to the BiG World Fixpack that uses HANDLE_CHARSETS to convert the ANSI-encoded tra files only when EE game type is detected.

Since my patch is part of the Fixpack, I referenced the copy of iconv that we include with the Fixpack; if you follow my approach and add HANDLE_CHARSETS in the next release, remember that you will need to include a standalone copy of iconv in the mod package.  I would recommend keeping the tra files in non-UTF8 encoding in the mod package and using the HANDLE_CHARSETS conversion at install-time so you will still have a single mod package for both EE and non-EE games.

The Big World Fixpack also includes a couple of other patches for your mod to make it compatible with EET.

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Re: UTF-8 text conversion is needed for non-English installations
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2017, 03:15:27 AM »
We did the same and Kukyok has the new package.
I'm going to let Kulyok know about the polish translation. Can you attach here the polish .tra files?

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Re: UTF-8 text conversion is needed for non-English installations
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2017, 09:21:14 PM »
There is no Polish translation as far as I know.  The mod only includes English tra files.  I guess the crash was unrelated to Polish language - just EE in general.

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Re: UTF-8 text conversion is needed for non-English installations
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2017, 02:36:47 AM »
Ah ok, I didn't understand, sorry.
Well, with v2 it shouldn't crash anymore. :)

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Re: UTF-8 text conversion is needed for non-English installations
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2017, 03:02:14 PM »
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