Hello,

I would like to translate a little of the .dat files in french because your game look great and at this moment i play it a lot :). but il have some question ! What is the encoding of this text file ! because i see its not a UTF8.

And another little thing, if its a UTF encoding or other, with dont using BOM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark) its very helpfull to edit the text with standard editor.

Sorry, X-Force doesn't support Unicode. The files are in ANSI-Code. To support Unicode all functions which using strings must be rewrite and that isn't simple. The displays of the characters should depend on the local settings. (I think so)

thanks.

Just 1 think more :) if u want one day using unicode, i think u can easily use it on .DAT like a user/translator frendly format, without changing all functions which using strings.

.DAT file (unicode) <-> .DAT reader (convert .DAT to internal encoding) <-> Internal encoding (ANSI)

Maybe X-Force use one or 2 functions to read .DAT, than maybe its not a lot of work to change it :/

Thats a good idea. But have you any Idea to realize it. I doesn't know much about Unicode.

If you use windows API, it exist function like TextOut or other to display Unicode. To translate (win API), it exist StrConv http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbenl r98/html/vafctStrConv.asp (it seem to translate Unicode to ANSI, but i never .NET :? )
else it exists MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/ unicode_17si.asp


If you dont use Windows API, i dont know... maybe http://unicode.org/ can help :/

I could implement a solution for this. It should be trivial and transparent to the current code. But thanx for your hints.

Hi, I love your game and I could gve you a hand with the english and spanish translation, since I know german fairly well.

look at http://www.xforce-online.de/translations.php for more informations about translation.