Translation problem

[-=Jegge=-]

Hi

Could anyone tell me how I can get the game to write these letters ingame Æ and Ø, even if they are used in a translation file, ingame they are shown as a ?

thx in advance

[Max]

you must use proper character.
game uses ISO-8. find table of all characters (system or internet) and choose the proper ISO-8 code/character. or you can dig the game, eg city names or finish LP definitions, there might be at least some of them used already ...

[-=Jegge=-]

Right, gonna try that

Thanks for the fast replay Max

[-=Jegge=-]

Still no luck solving this

Okay, looked at the file for the city copenhagen, as it is stated in there

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city_name: "København"
city_name_localized: "@@kobenhavn@@"

now if I in a locale.translation file write something like this for a cargo:

(the custom cargo exits ingame and works, but I want the name of it translated to danish)

example:

name of cargo "@@kobenhavnstrup@@"

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key[]: "kobenhavnstrup"
val[]: "københavnstrup"

Then ingame "københavnstrup" shows up like this k?benhavnstrup still missing the right character.

other translations works fine, it´s only the characters æ and ø. that is not showing up like they should

[-=Jegge=-]

Anybody else got an idea or hint ?

[rmanenc]

No, I'm sorry.
My language, catalan, uses a interpunct character in many words, but the game don't show it. For example, the word "col·locació" is showed "collocació" in game. Maybe will be a good idea to migrate the game character set to Unicode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct#Catalan

[-=Jegge=-]

@rmanenc

Oh okay, well lets hope someone from the scs team can help us out here

[Some newbie driver]

Not completely correct rmanenc

What ISO-8 (really ISO/IEC 8859) lacks for catalan if the letter "l·" altogether (as if it was by itself a different letter). But that charset contains the interpunct symbol "·" in some of their sub-charset (latin 1 and 9, as 183 or 0xB7). So, the game should be able to show that symbol for words that contain "l·l ". You just have to be sure you are using the appropriate sub-charset of ISO-8 (the best for the use you want is Latin-9 ISO/IEC-8859-15, because it also contains the € sign).

That same ISO/IOEC-8859-15 also contains the letters that Jaegge is looking for. The problem he's having is probably due the program he's using as text editor. When he's saving the files he edits, the program should be saving them on a different ISO-8859 sub-charset that lacks those symbols. That's why he later sees something different than intended.

Anyways, you are right, the best would have been to make the game supporting Unicode from the beginning. But as SCS have inherited old code (I suppose), to change that has not been neither easy or a priority.

Regards

[rmanenc]

Ok, thanks.

[-=Jegge=-]

@Some newbie driver

first off, thanks for your reply on this , as for the program I am using, it´s NotePad++ and the coding for the document is set to ISO/IEC-8859-15, but still after saving it with that coding, the correct letters don´t appear ingame, still getting the ? (question mark instead)

Also tried a few other codings, but it didn't change anything, well who knows, maybe it´s just me that don´t get this right