Internationalization: Text desappears after foreign characters

fresno

I am playing the game in Spanish in ubuntu 12.04 and it goes very well except that I cannot play it in Spanish. The text ends as soon a non ascii character is found, like á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ etc. I have read in steam of a german having the same problem. For example, the menúes in game will show only «S» instead of «Sí» or «Atr» instead of «atrás» in every menu or «aceleraci» instead of «aceleración» in the options menu. It seems that the text of the translations are written in a different encoding that the game uses.

METROID

It is known Linux version problem.

fresno

Thanks. I searched but I didn't find anything. Is there any work around or the only posibility is to play in english?

GhoulofGSG9

The spark engine is not really encoding and decoding string correctly into uft8 ( using standard ASCII instead ). That combined with some weird bugs in the opengl render and voila there is your reason why this is not working.

CDT is not really working on the linux client (beside fixing some obvious issues we see directly) because nobody of us is really familiar with opengl at all.

Also making spark ready to support utf8 natively would be a lot work for really less gain. So I'm not expecting to see this anytime soon.

If anyone reading this feels like he is able to solve those issues of the ns2 linux client feel free to sign up for the CDT: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/135095/we-need-you-linux-developers-to-join-the-cdt

devel

GhoulofGSG9 wrote: »

If anyone reading this feels like he is able to solve those issues of the ns2 linux client feel free to sign up for the CDT: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/135095/we-need-you-linux-developers-to-join-the-cdt

Is it as easy to contribute as to FOSS? Or there is a paperwork?

GhoulofGSG9

devel wrote: »

GhoulofGSG9 wrote: »

If anyone reading this feels like he is able to solve those issues of the ns2 linux client feel free to sign up for the CDT: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/135095/we-need-you-linux-developers-to-join-the-cdt

Is it as easy to contribute as to FOSS? Or there is a paperwork?

As much as i would wish to say yes to the first question, sadly there is paperwork.

Due to the fact that the spark engine is mainly built by UWE for financial gain and will be also used by them in the future it won't be open sourced any time soon.

Also you have to sign a NDA, meaning you won't be allowed to reuse any code you create in connection with spark or ns2, in any other project.

So basically joining CDT has only 3 gains:

1. You can meet a lot pretty descent ppl to hang out and work with.
2. You can train your coding and software engineering skills (including team management etc.)
3. You can make ns2 better every day :P and have hopefully some more effect on how the game evolves.

Also don't look for financial gain in the cdt we don't really get any money at all. Only some ppl get special dlcs but those are really not worth it compared to how much time you will put into ns2.