Luigi Auriemma

@aluigi

I have a problem about Art of Murder 2 to show ascii character biger the 0x80 .
First i can extract the .tab file from ~en.vbf,and make a dir in the game root named text. Then rename the .tab file to string.tab and put it in the text dir.The game will read it first.
I want to translate this game to 2bytes chinese language.
The string.tab is encoded in UTF-8.
I modified a few words in string.tab ,and use autodebug to find it be convert to wide char correctly.
But the ascii character biger the 0x80 can' be shown even if it is a single byte character .

Can you help me to show the ascii character biger the 0x80 ?
Maybe have limitation in some dlls? I know this game developed by virtools 4.1.
Very thanks.

in this case you must first verify if the chars major than 0x80 are just dropped (not visible/skipped) or are handled like one-byte chars so for example if you use the byte 0xff you will see ?? because utf-8 uses chars with a variable length so are needed some tests to verify if the software which read these files supports it for real or no.

if the problem is a check on the sign of the bytes I "guess" it's possible to bypass it but in any case this is strange because if the program "really" supports utf-8 it should not have similar problems.