OPL 0.8 Lang aspects on game list

[toze3]

Hi

I was adding some games in my HDD and i noticed if i put a accent in the game name, opl cut the name in that character.

For example:

name of the game:
BUZZ! Quem é o Génio Português?

and OPL gives me only:
BUZZ! Quem

In HDloader 0.8c the name presented is correct.

In my settings i have portuguese lang (and also the ttf file).

How do i correct this error?

thanks

[ronysales]

Hi

I was adding some games in my HDD and i noticed if i put a accent in the game name, opl cut the name in that character.

For example:

name of the game:
BUZZ! Quem é o Génio Português?

and OPL gives me only:
BUZZ! Quem

In HDloader 0.8c the name presented is correct.

In my settings i have portuguese lang (and also the ttf file).

How do i correct this error?

thanks

Tenta renomealo sem os acentos. com no máximo 32 caracteres.

[toze3]

That way i know it works, the funny thing is that all characters are there, simple aren't visible.

[dlanor]

Hi

I was adding some games in my HDD and i noticed if i put a accent in the game name, opl cut the name in that character.

For example:

name of the game:
BUZZ! Quem é o Génio Português?

and OPL gives me only:
BUZZ! Quem

The character 'é' has an ascii code of 0xE9, which places it far outside the normal range of the english alphabet, which I think some string parsers of OPL are optimized for. This probably causes some routine to consider that character to be a string terminator. (or to consider it an invalid character causing emergency termination)

In HDloader 0.8c the name presented is correct.

Possibly because it uses another means of identifying the character.

In my settings i have portuguese lang (and also the ttf file).

Those files define how the GUI is to use UTF8 encoded text to present information for you, but they do not define how to parse game description strings.

How do i correct this error?

You can't completely fix it yourself. That needs to be done by modifying those string parsers of OPL, so as to not just invalidate all characters above the limit of english letters, but to test individual flags for each possible ascii character. With ascii text that should be very easy to do, as normal ascii only needs 256 different flags to test. (At least I assume that ascii is used here. Else it may be more complex.)

But a simple workaround you can do yourself (for now) is just to avoid using the letters that don't exist in the English alphabet for the game descriptions.

This is essentially the same advice ronysales gave, though it probably needs to be applied to ALL non-English letters, and not only the ones with 'accent'.

And like he also said, you must always observe the max limit of 32 characters in the game descriptions.

Best regards: dlanor