Bay 12 Games Forum

Hello, I've resurrected my old account here to cross post a question I posted on Reddit, and apologies for the crosspost, but it went two days without a reply.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DwarfFortressModding/comments/zwqzgl/raws_character_encoding/

Basically, I'm trying to figure out how to properly handle encoding of special characters in the raws. I just see the unicode question mark ("�") by default. I understand that the raws should be using CP437, or Windows-1252 encoding, but when I use visual studio code, and set those, it doesn't look right either (see the reddit post for those results).

I am using Ubuntu, so that just may be my problem. I've seen similar issues with Mac before.  I'm also still looking at 40.07.

I'm really just messing around to try to add classic Tolkien Dwarf character names into my language files.

Edit: I figured out the problem, and updated the reddit post. The issue was that I had previously opened and saved the file in the incorrect encoding, saving the unicode characters. I only realized this when I noticed that all the incorrectly encoded characters were the same, and started looking at the language_ELF.txt file for comparison, and the characters appeared differently. Those pesky elves are good for something I guess.

Reverting the language_DWARF.txt file to a fresh version, and then setting the encoding to CP 437 immediately upon opening it resolved the issue and allowed me to see the proper characters in my editor.

Read the Dev log.

Adventure mode is much more interesting, fortress mode goes much deeper, with a better chance of running into fun.

Honestly, work and school has prevented me from actually playing much at all for the past year or so, but I still read the log regularly.

I'm back with more noob problems!

I've gotten far enough that I now have a single line file consisting of roughly 8 million hexadecimal numbers, separated by spaces, stored as text in a temporary file. Something like this, only longer:

Code: [Select]

ffff 5a7 53ef 816 54 e7f
I want to read these and convert them to decimal numbers. I've tested the function fscanf, but I'm not quite sure it does what I want it to do (my own testing has yielded strange results). What I want is simple, read 1 to 4 characters, treat them as a hexadecimal number and then write them to another file. Any advice?

I appreciate any and all advice!

Even though folk don't seem to take kindly to java around here. here is how to do it in that.

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ReadHex {

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {

Scanner input = new Scanner(new File(args[0]));

String output = "";
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(args[1]);

while(input.hasNext()){
String hex = input.next();
out.print(Integer.parseInt(hex,16)+" ");
}

out.close();

}
}

It takes arguments in through the command line, but you could modify for a prompt.

Quote from: DeadlyLintRoller on September 29, 2012, 08:47:35 pm

Here I am, 9:45 on a Saturday night, working on class for a Master's in IT. Anyone have any Java Programming Questions? I am also experienced in PHP, Javascript and Drupal Development.

If you need a question, this one never got adequately resolved.

Quote from: Kofthefens on September 08, 2012, 05:14:09 pm

I'm trying to make a program that will check a yahoo email. However, when I do emailChecker.recieve(), it gives me an error message. I am using JavaMail. The code looks like this:

Spoiler: Code (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

public static void receive(String popServer, String popUser, String popPassword){
Store store = null;
Folder folder = null;
try {
// Get hold of the default session
Properties props = System.getProperties();
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
// Get hold of a POP3 message store, and connect to it
store = session.getStore("pop3");
store.connect(popServer, popUser, popPassword);

// Try to get hold of the default folder
folder = store.getDefaultFolder();
if (folder == null) throw new Exception("No default folder");

// ...and its inbox
folder = folder.getFolder("INBOX");
if (folder == null) throw new Exception("No POP3 INBOX");

// Open the folder
folder.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);

// Get the message wrappers and process them
Message[] msgs = folder.getMessages();
for (int msgNum = 0; msgNum < msgs.length; msgNum++) {
printMessage(msgs[msgNum]);
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} finally {
// Close down
try {
if (folder!=null) folder.close(false);
if (store!=null) store.close();
} catch (Exception ex2) {
ex2.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

And the error message looks like this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Code: [Select]

javax.mail.MessagingException: Connect failed;
  nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store.protocolConnect(POP3Store.java:210)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:295)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:176)
at src.Checker.receive(Checker.java:52)
at src.Checker.update(Checker.java:140)
at src.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:16)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.createSocket(SocketFetcher.java:319)
at com.sun.mail.util.SocketFetcher.getSocket(SocketFetcher.java:233)
at com.sun.mail.pop3.Protocol.<init>(Protocol.java:111)
at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store.getPort(POP3Store.java:261)
at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Store.protocolConnect(POP3Store.java:206)
... 5 more


Thanks in advance for the help.

I do not, that explains it. Any idea how to check a gmail account? (The tutorial I found was for yahoo mail, so I tried that).

Thanks!

Looks like that was settled, although, I likely would have struggled to get to the bottom of that one. Sorry fo taking a week to respond. I'm just completely buried with work, school and in the process of trying to buy a house...

Rather than starting a new thread I thought I would ask here...

Is there a ~COMPLETE~ roguelike tutorial for C++?

Every single one I find is half finished...

is making a roguelike in C++ so soul crushing that even experienced programmers cant complete it? XD

I imagine that people make roguelike games out of hobby/practice, but being developers, their time is in high demand so that project is the first thing to go when work gets busy. I'd like to make a hobby out of developing a game in java, but know I'll never have the time...

I've kind of half payed attention to this thread over the past year, has this spawned any open source community projects? Are they available on github?

He's sounds like a douchebag trying to be an alpha male. It's an empty threat, he won't touch you.

Cats are adorable too. Here is mine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIWWLdxmCB8

Here I am, 9:45 on a Saturday night, working on class for a Master's in IT. Anyone have any Java Programming Questions? I am also experienced in PHP, Javascript and Drupal Development.