Question about BG1RE chinese translation and text encoding

[lostink]

Hello, I'm new to Baldur's Gate and recently learned about this mod. I know it's not localized into Chinese, so I tried to edit the .tra file under english folder, then reinstall. In game, the text I edited garble, does this mean that the method works, but there is an error in the text encoding? I tried to save file into different text encoding, (ANSI/UTF-8... someone says it should be GB2312, I tried too.) but got the same result.

It would be great if someone can guide me out.

[jastey]

@lostink Welcome to the forums!

I have no idea, unfortunately. If you take a look at the mod "Unfinished Business", it has a simplified Chinese translation afaik, maybe you can deduct how they did it? When I open translated tra files (in \ub\lang\chinese), my Notepad++ tell me the encoding is "GB2312 (simplified)".

 

Please note: some mods use utf8-encoded tra files (for example Tweaks Anthology), but bg1re needs the "ANSI" format for its tra files.

[argent77]

According to the WeiDU Readme Simplified Chinese text is expected to be CP936-encoded. I don't think Notepad++ supports this format natively.

You could create a translation file in UTF-8 and use the command line tool "iconv" to convert it manually to the right code page. Linux and macOS should provide iconv by default. A Windows binary of iconv can be downloaded here: https://github.com/mlocati/gettext-iconv-windows/releases/latest

The general iconv syntax would be:

iconv -f utf-8 -t cp936 input.tra >output.tra

The LANGUAGE name for the Chinese translation in the mod's .tp2 script should either be "schinese" or "zh_CN", or otherwise WeiDU can't determine the right encoding when the mod is installed in an EE game.

[lostink]

5 hours ago, jastey said:

If you take a look at the mod "Unfinished Business", it has a simplified Chinese translation afaik,

Strangely, when I open text in notepad++, some lines are garbled. 

4 hours ago, argent77 said:

use the command line tool "iconv" to convert it manually

Still the same result.

[Zaramorte]

You could try in this forum

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/

if there's a suitable unicode, someone there should know about it