Mod kit character encoding

clark17 · Post by **clark17** » Mon Nov 10, 2014 11:55 pm

Hi all,

I have a small problem with character encoding in Compagnies.DBF.
I add a compagnie with name "Nestlé", and in game i have this:

When i open Compagnie.DBF with Libre Office, i have a choice with many character encoding, but wich one?

clark17 · Post by **clark17** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 6:12 pm

No one has the answer?

counting · Post by **counting** » Wed Nov 26, 2014 7:09 pm

If it's 'é', then ISO-8859-14 or 15, or windows 1252 have it. The problem is how the game read the code-page.

For me, I open it with DOS/OS2-850 it's a much older code, should include a lot of Western European characters

David · Post by **David** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:17 pm

Please select "Unicode (UTF-8)".

clark17 · Post by **clark17** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 2:57 pm

Thanks!

counting · Post by **counting** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:58 pm

David wrote:Please select "Unicode (UTF-8)".

But it's also about how Capitalism program read the encoding than the actual dbf's character encoding, right?

I can type in all the Characters in Chinese as I want and showing them in openoffice just fine, but Capitalism would not be able to show them anyway (it would actually crash the game if you attempt to put them in a dbf file)

David · Post by **David** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 1:28 am

I did a test and the game was able to display Chinese characters. Please see the attached screenshots.

counting · Post by **counting** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:12 am

I put Chinese characters in billionaire list. And it crashes during loading.

It should use UTF-8 encoding right? Or was it has something to do with simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese?

David · Post by **David** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:50 am

I used Unicode UTF-8 and traditional Chinese and it ran okay.

Perhaps you can send me your Billionaries DBF file and I will test it.

counting · Post by **counting** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 4:01 am

David wrote:I used Unicode UTF-8 and traditional Chinese and it ran okay.

Perhaps you can send me your Billionaries DBF file and I will test it.

I patched it to 2.6.14 and repack it again, and it doesn't crash anymore. Something updated in the latest patch?

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