Editing ZDoom in Japanese

[Tw3ek]

Hello!

I am attempting to put the text for ZDoom into Japanese. I have the language file created in the pw3, however I notice when I set the encoding to display Japanese characters, certain aspects of the game fail (music fails to load, end messages, etc..) Is there only support for ANSI encoding of these files?

[Gez]

ZDoom currently does not support Unicode (I think it's hardcoded to use Windows-1252), so it's going to be difficult to translate it into Japanese. You'll be limited to using Romaji. (And even then, with û and ô, not with Hepburn's ū and ō.)

[Tw3ek]

ZDoom currently does not support Unicode (I think it's hardcoded to use Windows-1252), so it's going to be difficult to translate it into Japanese. You'll be limited to using Romaji. (And even then, with û and ô, not with Hepburn's ū and ō.)

Thank you for the reply. This is the issue that I was afraid of. Is it known if there plans at any stage to add Unicode support? Thanks!

[InsanityBringer]

Unicode isn't supported, but a user Toooooasty has been working on kana language support for Zdoom. Check it out here

Trouble is that due to the lack of unicode support, you'll have to use certain english characters and punctuation in order to use it. My japanese isn't very good, but poking at the included text file, it seems to have a mapping of what kana you'll get from what character.

EDIT: hey whoops I'm a massive idiot you were talking about scripts and not in game text. sorry, you'll probably just have to stick to english characters on that.

EDIT2: holy crap I'm confused right now

[Tw3ek]

Unicode isn't supported, but a user Toooooasty has been working on kana language support for Zdoom. Check it out here

Trouble is that due to the lack of unicode support, you'll have to use certain english characters and punctuation in order to use it. My japanese isn't very good, but poking at the included text file, it seems to have a mapping of what kana you'll get from what character.

EDIT: hey whoops I'm a massive idiot you were talking about scripts and not in game text. sorry, you'll probably just have to stick to english characters on that.

This is fantastic! Thank you very much for this, that mapping was hugely helpful!

[InsanityBringer]

... heh, so I wasn't wrong initially? I guess I'm a little confused now, but as long as you got what you need, all is good.

[Tw3ek]

... heh, so I wasn't wrong initially? I guess I'm a little confused now, but as long as you got what you need, all is good.

Well I was going for both, so to even get 1 is a big plus!

[Nash]

Is it known if there plans at any stage to add Unicode support?

Planned... sure... just don't know when.

[Rachael]

Well we already lost Win9x support, and more and more commits are gradually going in that distances ZDoom from it. But AFAIK no work has been done yet, to convert ZDoom's internal strings and structures to update to the new Unicode format.

[Graf Zahl]

The main issue, aside from rewriting large pieces of code, is that the font system isn't really suited to handle Unicode.
Overall, don't lose hope. It's still better than Eternity, which, according to Quasar, "will forever remain 7 bit ASCII" because he can't be bothered to undo some poor design decisions of the past.

Maybe one of these days, a library like FreeType should be added to the picture to allow more flexible font handling.