AHSTranslator - Greek Characters

[sefarat]

Hi, I'm using AHSTranslator and language_XX.lng files to put my application in several languages but when I try to use greek characters it does not work.

I have changed the file language_el.lng to UTF8 using Notepad++ and the text is correctly showed in my pc (in greek language). When I launch the application I just see strange characters.

Please let me know how can I use greek, russian and chinese characters in file language_xx.lng

Thanks in advance and kind regards
Sefarat

 

[corwin42]

You have to convert your special characters to unicode (the char sequences beginning with \u....) so you have something like this in your translation file:

AM\ Clouds\ /\ PM\ Sun=Vorm. bew\u00F6lkt / nachm. Sonne

There are some text editors like PSPad which can convert to unicode. I don't know if Notepad++ has such a function.

 

[Erel]

I believe that UTF8 should work properly. I'm not deeply familiar with the AHLocale library but it can probably read UTF8 text.

 

[corwin42]

AHLocale Library uses a Map internally for the translations and uses File.WriteMap and File.ReadMap to store and read them.

We had a similar problem in the AHLocale Library thread where a user had problems using japanese characters. Changing them to unicode solved the issue. Even the java documentation of properties files suggests to use unicode characters for international characters.

 

[Erel]

I see it now. It will be fixed in the next version. UTF8 will be supported.
For now you can use this tool: Native-to-ASCII Converter

It is available under Program Files\Java\JDK1.6\bin

 

[sefarat]

Hi again, I think the file is already encoded in utf8. It is attached, could you please take a look, to see if it is ok?

Regarding what you mentioned about /u, do I have to add the /u to every character? or it can be add in a word of phrase?

Thanks againd and kind regards
Sefarat

 

[Erel]

I was wrong. See my above post.