Hi,
it's possible that Simutrans will use UTF8 charset in translation texts?
I think it will remove the problems with encoding in "other" languages and simplify translating (SimuTranslator).
Thanks, Tomas
I'll just add that this would probably need libiconv.
Simutrans uses UTF-8 since 85.01, was one of the very first thing I did to the code. However, SDL has some problems (understatement) with two-byte languages like chinese, japanese and so on and for that the GDI version is mandantory.
So it is already possible to have translation tab files in unicode?
The chinese, belorussian, russian and japanese are UTF-8. THese files just need to start with ยง as the very first character to recognize them as unicode.
So, just add BOM and paragraph and that's it? Then it could be made standard for all languages?
No, better not. SDL support Uunicode not really very well. The is why I activate it only for few languages.
prissi: and is there any hope that all languages will be using UTF8 (in imminent future)?
Prissi just said it is not a good idea ::)
Why? Most editors show their native encoding (or can be set to) and simutranslator work well too. This is only of concern for people editing translation on machines without the proper encoding. But then, use iconv, (or Notepad) and make Unicode out of it. Simutrans can read UTF-8 too. (But without a proper Latin2.bdf, it cannot display it correctly).