UTF with German letters or looking for German market favorites
 

i´m looking for german translated favorites _ProfitUI_Market_Favorites1.txt etc or if they will not exist a small hint how to use german characters like äöü in these txt/xml files from your fav :)
i tried with html ä=ä doesnt work an ascii ä=ä doesnt work, too :/ is there a way to get a real ä ingame?

Good question. To tell you the truth, I have no idea how this can me made to work. If you look at the way the game saves it's own "saved searches", you will see that äöü are just saved like that without any further encoding. I have tried copying the data directly from the saved searches dropdown but it still will be entered incorrectly into the search textbox.

The same problem recently arose with browser searches for quest names with such characters. Same answer there for the time being.

hm strange :(
i tested a little bit last days, like change the xml form to latin/iso from utf, but nothing happens. placed a lot of unicode html sequences and so on in the fav txt but nothing happens. everytime i get squares instead of the german letters ä and so on :/ i´m no xml guru, maybe the file format must have the xml extension instead of the txt? or maybe the pulldown format from the fav ingame should format as a utf character set?
are there no other ui designer with localaized problems? if i take a loot at the french letters, there are a lot of french only letters or russian and so on... maybe i try a post on the official eq2 forum, hopefully a ui dev read this post and give me some hints :)

Good luck with that, would be the first time a dev responds to a UI question on the official forums.

Othesus was the one with the browser issues, see here that a Russian user asked about.

I think you will need a real UTF8-editor to do so. Most UTF-editors use ASCII or UTF16 but not UTF8 for encoding. I had the same problem writing translations for Firefox-Extensions.
I ended up using SuperEdi, as it was the only editor I found, that allowed me to use non ASCII chars.

I hope this helps.

thx for the hint with the editor, but wont change anything :/ if i edit an existing file or create a new one as a utf-8 xml unix formatted file... the äöü will appear as blank squares ;-(

It's no question of the editor. The problem is that the game internally stores the characters in a non-UTF format, likely äöü is represented internally as %C3%A4%C3%B6%C3%B. The problem is that we have no function available to convert UTF strings into the internal format - at least noone has found such a function yet to the best of my knowledge - and we cannot modify individual characters in strings to perform a manual conversion.

So while we can properly encode äöü in a file, we cannot use these values in any way other than just to display them without breaking the encoding.