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Weidu 1.8 german - missing ß and umlaut


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#1 -rumpel-

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Posted 11 February 2015 - 08:03 AM

Hello there,

 

first of all sorry english is not my main language.

As said in the title my problem is that ß and umlauts are not displayed correctly in game (im using the gog version all baldurs gate games + expansions + BGT Weidu 1.8).

through searching i found a setup,tra that should sovle the problem as far as i understood. i copy pasted it but it hasnt done the job. i found some info about converting the tra files with notepad ++ from ANSI to UFT-8 w/o BOM <- also tried that still same result.

 

So is there any way i can correct this ? pls enlighten me thanks in advance.



#2 The Imp

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Posted 11 February 2015 - 08:24 AM

Well the weidu mods today use character sets specified to the language in use, and the setup.tra file during the install phase(this uses the UTF-8 whitout BOM), so that won't have the ß and umlauts, ö/Ö, ä/Ä or å/Å characters, but the language specific files can have them.
So the dialog and item descriptions for example for what ever language is used gives the unique characters for that language using the language encoding used in the rest of the .tra files. In the BGT-weidu v1.18 the german files(in BGT118-Install.rar\bgt\language\german/setup.tra file at least) has the ü and ö's from what I took a quick glance out of, I used the Notepad++ program and at least in it, with the "Encoding in ANSI" it had those letters. Did you use the German language during the choise of the language ? And what is your Windows language ? And what's the base language of your BG2 and BG1 ?
i found some info about converting the tra files with notepad ++ from ANSI to UFT-8 w/o BOM <- also tried that still same result.
So presumably you did the exact opposite what you should have done, as you are not a translator, but a regular player who does not need to do a thing.

Edited by The Imp, 11 February 2015 - 08:29 AM.

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Posted 11 February 2015 - 09:13 AM

my game is fully english because gog only offered the english version (first time i played it unmodded -before this install- i was just using german dialog.tlk).my windows language was english as well, but i changed it to german after the installation because i read something about it could be the reason for the missing letters<- sorry forgot to mention this in the first post. so i guess i have to install it again now after i changed windows language to german ?

 

thanks for the help



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Posted 11 February 2015 - 09:16 AM

edit : Did you use the German language during the choise of the language ? in the Weidu installer u mean ? yes