[gingerbread]

Originally Posted by haxxxen this is an encoding issue of txt files i assume. on default these characters cannot be displayed. on unicode it works

How do I do it?

[haxxxen]

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[gingerbread]

Originally Posted by haxxxen this is an encoding issue of txt files i assume. on default these characters cannot be displayed. on unicode it works edit i think this means the code editor has to be recoded? @gingerbread to maybe avoid this, open original st.dat with hexeditor "madedit" (freeware) and switch encoding to shift jis. then you will see original japanese letters. this is btw a very handy tool to translate japanese games as it has shift jis as default "onboard" to switch encoding in madedit: open original st.dat in madedit and choose under view->encoding->shift jis

Thanks for your reply.

I tried opening the st.dat with madedit and changed the encoding to Shift JIS, no luck. I have even tried other encoding like simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese. Can you test them. Thank you.

[aldostools]

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[gingerbread]

Originally Posted by aldostools The Unicode characters (chinese, japansese, korean, arabic, cyrillic, etc.) are shown as ? because the standard VB5 controls are ANSI, not Unicode. To add support for Unicode characters, I would have to use the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library (FM20.dll). That library of controls is part of Microsoft Office and should not be redistributed with other applications. Additionally it adds a new dependency, which causes more support issues... More info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193540

Thanks for your reply and explanation!

Is there a simple tool where I can convert "?" to Unicode.

[aldostools]

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[gingerbread]

Originally Posted by aldostools I'm afraid that you should take the text from the original st.dat Once the Unicode character is converted to ? (Ansi) it remains as ? (Ansi) So, it is not a "simple" task...

Thanks you.

I will try it out.

[haxxxen]

i will extract all japanese text for you from original st.dat. but translation is up to you

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sorry, but you are right. not everything can be viewed with that editor. maybe trying the old cheat.txt files. they do not cover all games i think, but most should be in there.

[gingerbread]

Originally Posted by haxxxen i will extract all japanese text for you from original st.dat. but translation is up to you edit sorry, but you are right. not everything can be viewed with that editor. maybe trying the old cheat.txt files. they do not cover all games i think, but most should be in there.

Thanks for your help.

I have updated the attachment with some translation.

[gingerbread]

@aldostools



I am aware that you have mention before that placing ID column before Cheats could be a problem.

Could there be a workaround to make the program remember last window state? Since users are able to drag ID column and place before Cheats, will it be possible for a settings file?

Also, users are able to double click the Version, Cheats and Region intersections to shrink fit the columns. But when exiting and reopening the app, it goes back to default, which it great. But it would it better if the column stats are remembers in settings file or in registry.

If users want to restore windows state to default, they could simply execute/merge "Restore Default Windows State.reg". You could include the file in the programs folder.

Thank you.