BZ 3142: Special characters in cities.txt

greg54 · 06-03-2009, 09:22 PM

The special characters in cities.txt are not displaying correctly for me, although the cities.txt from ootp9 do seem to display the right way. Here is an example from OOTP10

Saint-Ã‰tienne-de-TinÃ©e

Phillies_WFC_2008 · 06-03-2009, 09:34 PM

Noticed the same thing with Sept Iles, Quebec.

canadiancreed · 06-03-2009, 09:35 PM

Just to clarify it's not displaying right in game as well as not on this forum? I know I had to switch to Unicode to view them.

Phillies_WFC_2008 · 06-03-2009, 09:42 PM

For me it didn't display properly in game. In game it looked like what the OP posted.

greg54 · 06-03-2009, 09:59 PM

Not displaying right in the game for me either. I noticed it when I set up a French league.

greg54 · 06-04-2009, 09:19 AM

I opened cities.txt with a text editor called EditPad Lite and found it was encoded as UTF-8 (Unicode) while the other text files seemed to be encoded as Windows 1252: Western European. I converted cities.txt to Windows 1252: Western European and created a new game. That fixed the display of city names using correct characters.

cody8200 · 06-04-2009, 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by greg54

I opened cities.txt with a text editor called EditPad Lite and found it was encoded as UTF-8 (Unicode) while the other text files seemed to be encoded as Windows 1252: Western European. I converted cities.txt to Windows 1252: Western European and created a new game. That fixed the display of city names using correct characters.

Cool. Can you post this file?

greg54 · 06-04-2009, 09:42 AM

I'd love to post it. The message board seems to have 100K limit on attached files. Anyone know another method?

Jared · 06-04-2009, 04:53 PM

I'm seeing a problem with font displays for cities in Central/South America, most often vowels with the little accent marks over them like á or é (I know there's a term for those, forgive my cultural ignorance). The display looks like an HTML tag like you'd see in a website URL for that character, rather than the actual character. I would guess this is also a problem for player names. Can we fix the font to show these characters correctly?

cody8200 · 06-04-2009, 05:48 PM

This was mentioned here as well.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ities-txt.html

This is a bug. BZ 3138

thomamon · 06-04-2009, 06:01 PM

Since this is a dup, I will merge these two threads

06-03-2009, 09:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
greg54 Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 9	BZ 3142: Special characters in cities.txt The special characters in cities.txt are not displaying correctly for me, although the cities.txt from ootp9 do seem to display the right way. Here is an example from OOTP10 Saint-Ã‰tienne-de-TinÃ©e

06-04-2009, 04:53 PM	#9 (permalink)
Jared Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Columbia, SC Posts: 93	Font Issue - Special Characters I'm seeing a problem with font displays for cities in Central/South America, most often vowels with the little accent marks over them like á or é (I know there's a term for those, forgive my cultural ignorance). The display looks like an HTML tag like you'd see in a website URL for that character, rather than the actual character. I would guess this is also a problem for player names. Can we fix the font to show these characters correctly?

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06-03-2009, 09:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
Phillies_WFC_2008 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: The Garden State Posts: 150 Thanked 27x in 16 posts	Noticed the same thing with Sept Iles, Quebec.

06-03-2009, 09:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
canadiancreed Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,022 Blog Entries: 1 Thanked 115x in 84 posts	Just to clarify it's not displaying right in game as well as not on this forum? I know I had to switch to Unicode to view them.

06-03-2009, 09:42 PM	#4 (permalink)
Phillies_WFC_2008 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: The Garden State Posts: 150 Thanked 27x in 16 posts	For me it didn't display properly in game. In game it looked like what the OP posted.

06-03-2009, 09:59 PM	#5 (permalink)
greg54 Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 9	Not displaying right in the game for me either. I noticed it when I set up a French league.

06-04-2009, 09:19 AM	#6 (permalink)
greg54 Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 9	I opened cities.txt with a text editor called EditPad Lite and found it was encoded as UTF-8 (Unicode) while the other text files seemed to be encoded as Windows 1252: Western European. I converted cities.txt to Windows 1252: Western European and created a new game. That fixed the display of city names using correct characters.

06-04-2009, 09:42 AM	#8 (permalink)
greg54 Bat Boy Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 9	I'd love to post it. The message board seems to have 100K limit on attached files. Anyone know another method?

06-04-2009, 05:48 PM	#10 (permalink)
cody8200 All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 1,244 Thanked 134x in 75 posts	This was mentioned here as well. http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ities-txt.html This is a bug. BZ 3138

06-04-2009, 06:01 PM	#11 (permalink)
thomamon Global Moderator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ Posts: 5,148 Thanked 43x in 21 posts	Since this is a dup, I will merge these two threads