Make letters Ä and Ö usable (for translation purposes)


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Post Saturday, 12th May 2012, 21:42

Make letters Ä and Ö usable (for translation purposes)

So yeah, I got the ridiculous idea of translating every translatable part of Crawl to Finnish (because I love translating and Crawl), and this went great until I noticed all instances of letters Ä and Ö appeared as reverse question marks (or something) in game. As these letters are a very big part of the language, it didn't work out. So, could this little thing be fixed? :)
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Post Saturday, 12th May 2012, 21:59

Re: Make letters Ä and Ö usable (for translation purposes)

Unless things are different for these specific characters, if you're trying to translate something then view the result on Tiles, it won't work, because Tiles doesn't support Unicode, yet. Console does, however. I'd prefer it if someone more knowledgeable about this stuff were to answer this for you for sure, though.
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Post Sunday, 13th May 2012, 09:57

Re: Make letters Ä and Ö usable (for translation purposes)

Yes, that's exactly it. Unicode isn't supported in tiles yet, but it hopefully will be soon. We really need it since we're actually translating crawl. Btw, shiduda, you should put your translations on transifex so they get into the game. The translation project is just starting, so there's no doc yet (will be soon, promised!) and it's only descriptions and quotes for now.
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Post Sunday, 13th May 2012, 19:48

Re: Make letters Ä and Ö usable (for translation purposes)

Sounds very interesting! How do I exactly start translating on that site? I just requested Finnish as a language to that site, I guess it has to get accepted so I can join the translation team, and then I can start translating?

E: Nevermind, already started translating ;)

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