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[Ravendarksky]

Does anyone know what text encoding is used for the various raws. (or the best way to find out?)

I'm interested to know the answer for all but especially keen to know for gamelog.txt which is what I need right now to finish up my DFMon tool.

Hopefully someone can help me so I don't have to try and distract toady from more important things.

[MagmaMcFry]

I believe it's ISO-8859-15.

[Ravendarksky]

Hi MagmaMcFry,

Thanks for the swift reply!

I've just tried that one and it just seems to just make my c# text parser omit the special characters. I'm hoping you are right and my program is wrong!

Code: [Select]

string msg = File.ReadLines(dwarfgamelog.txt, Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-5")).Last();
                        var msgstr = linestr.ToCharArray();
char testChar = msgstr[10];

" `Farmer' DŒshmablibash, Planter cancels Plant Seeds: Needs cave wheat seeds. "
now gives me
`Farmer' Dshmablibash, Planter cancels Plant Seeds: Needs cave wheat seeds.

When I look at what code it is using it seems to think it's character 40 for Πwhich gives me a space.
I'm expecting î .

This is the only thread I've found with people doing anything similar: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=116645.msg3623962#msg3623962

This one seems to work for most of the basic special characters... I'm just going to use it for now until I figure out something more correct
CodePage: 437
DisplayName: OEM United States
Name: IBM437

[evictedSaint]

If I added a thousand identical custom vampire interactions to the raws, would I see any rise in the number of vampires?
(If I remember rightly, it doesn't matter if you set the number of vamp cursetypes in the advanced world creation to 1 or 1,000,001, you'll still get the same amount.)

[MagmaMcFry]

I'm pretty sure that the amount of deity interactions per historical figure is hardcoded, which means that if you added 1000001 custom vampires, that would result in the same amount of vampires, just that hardcoded vampires just appear very rarely.

Also, Ravendarksky, I did some research and the languages display correctly with IBM-850.

[Meph]

evictedSaint/magmafry: Thats correct.

[CryptoCactus]

Is VBASE still a thing people use? It looks extremely interesting, but it's pretty old now, Captain Mayday's gone, and the link to its "new" home ca. early 2012 is dead now.

[Putnam]

I haven't seen it used, but it still can be.

[CryptoCactus]

Neat. Thanks. I'm cooking something up and I think it'd be easier/more fun for me to use something like VBASE to do it with.

[Meph]

Is there any way to make shells that can be used in moods with a reaction`? Or are they like skulls and bones, require a dead creature first?

[MDFification]

Does anyone know how to make a newly created creature available for testing in Arena mode?

[BlackFlyme]

Is there any way to make shells that can be used in moods with a reaction`? Or are they like skulls and bones, require a dead creature first?

You can add [SHELL] to a material, but I'm not sure if that is all it takes to make it acceptable for a mood. It won't be usable for the vanilla shell reactions, but that's because they look for shell body components. At least, that's the error I keep getting when I tried adding [SHELL] to a few materials.

Does anyone know how to make a newly created creature available for testing in Arena mode?

They should be added automatically, so long as they exist and aren't [ARENA_RESTRICTED].

[WillowLuman]

Check to see if you forgot the caste name, or [OBJECT:CREATURE] at the top of the file

[MDFification]

Check to see if you forgot the caste name, or [OBJECT:CREATURE] at the top of the file

Ah, thanks.

[Meph]

So for a shell I need to spawn a insta-death creature that has a shell, got it.