Problem: blank fields instead of text

[Tarerk]

Hello,



I'm working on localizing a map from English to Russian but it seems like this map doesn't support cyrillic: the English texts that are replaced (in MPQ files) with the Russian ones appears as blank fields in the game. I have a russian version of Warcraft installed. Can someone advice on how to resolve this?



Thank you in advance.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Make sure in your Warcraft III options (main menu options only, not in game) you have the right localization set for text. It will not load Russian typesets/fonts otherwise so they will appear blank. This is what most English players see Russian or Korean localized map text as (blank spaces or garbage text because it cannot display them).

Tried importing the localized files as Russian locale? MPQ files support locales from a file system perspective so it might be that it tries to load the Russian text using the English character system because it is in the universal/English locale.

Non English character sets might only be supported if a separate string file is used. Many optimizers inline the strings into trigger scripts and object data. It might not be able to parse non-English text in those files since they were intended to contain text references to localized strings.

 

[Tarerk]

Dr Super Good,

I solved the problem through changing encoding settings of .txt files in Notepad++.

Thank you for your reply!