In French, some punctuation characters (question mark, exclamation mark,
colon, semicolon) also have a space before the symbol, not just after
the symbol as in most other languages. This preceding space should be a
non-breaking space, so that the punctuation is not wrapped onto a new
line separate from the preceding word.
The French translation was inconsistent about its quote style. Some
parts used guillemets, but others used double quotes. As far as I know,
guillemets are the standard quote form in French.
Note that in French, there are spaces on the inside of the guillemets as
well, not just on the outside as in most other languages. These inside
spaces should be non-breaking spaces, so that the guillemets are
line-wrapped together with the text being quoted.
Uru's fonts are limited to Latin-1 characters. If any characters outside
that range are used in in-game texts, the characters are either not
displayed at all or are replaced with a question mark symbol.
This change replaces all non-Latin-1 characters in all .loc files with
ASCII equivalents, so that they are displayed properly in-game.
Specifically, the following replacements are performed:
* Unicode dashes to ASCII hyphen-minus ([–—] to -)
* "Curly" quotes to "straight" quotes ([‘’‚] to ', [“”„] to ")
* Unicode ellipsis to ASCII dots (… to ...)
* œ to oe (sorry France)
This round-trips the entire Cyan localization database through the
plLocalizationEditor built from H-uru/Plasma#958. This means that:
- the XML files are re-encoded from UTF-16 to UTF-8 and therefore should
load faster due to less run-time re-encoding
- journals should be written out as CDATA with the esHTML data visible
in the clear
dgelessus
Adam Johnson