The enconding of FAangband Changed? - Translation to Spanish Project

[hernaldog]

nooo, as my intention is to translate into Spanish FAangband 1.4.4, I've noticed something! have you changed the encoding! I remember in 1.1.5 FAangband I could write such words ĂĄ, ĂŠ, Ă, Ăł, Ăş, and it's works fine.

Now I did a same test (see picture) and not seen!

I'm using Windows 8 and msysgit to compile:

[hernaldog]

nooo, as my intention is to translate into Spanish FAangband 1.4.4, I've noticed something! have you changed the encoding! I remember in 1.1.5 FAangband I could write such words ĂĄ, ĂŠ, Ă, Ăł, Ăş, and it's works fine.

Now I did a same test (see picture) and not seen!
...

Jajajaja. It was the encoding in the Editor, I had it as Windows 1252: Western European and was Unicode, UTF-8.

The only problem, is the "¡" and "¿" Spanish symbols, it's not recognized by the program, why?

[Nick]

The only problem, is the "¡" and "¿" Spanish symbols, it's not recognized by the program, why?

That's very interesting. I tested this by putting a "¡" in a monster name. It appeared fine in the monster list window, but as a "!" in th emonster knowledge screen, and as (you did it) in a message. This looks like some failure of our UTF-8 encoding - I will investigate further.

[hernaldog]

The enconding of FAangband Changed? - Translation to Spanish Project (solved)

Jajajaja. It was the encoding in the Editor, I had it as Windows 1252: Western European and was Unicode, UTF-8.

The only problem, is the "¡" and "¿" Spanish symbols, it's not recognized by the program, why?
...

I solved it myself. The error was that the game was running on a PC with Windows 8 in English and somehow the fonts or something to make it compiled, some characters are not in the game. I did the same test in my house where I have Windows 8 in Spanish language and it worked fine. All special symbols are properly Spanish. Now if, to work with the translation.



Project progress I'll upload it to my personal site and a thread when I have good progress.

Thanks to everyone who gave me support