Country tag issue with converted CKII->EU4 save

[UlquiorraCifer]

Hello, I recently converted a save from CK2 to EU4, but there must have been some problem with the localization. I was told by a person on zendesk to ask on the bug forums, if this should go in the CKII forums please redirect me.

When I load the game around 70 of the converted countries have names such as “Z04” and “Z16” instead of their actual country names. When I looked in the folder for my converted game under “common” the “countries” the files for all of the correctly named countries have their names in the file (i.e. “Sweden.txt” or “RomanEmpire.txt”) while the incorrectly named ones have files like “Z13.txt” even though I can see the correct country name within the txt file itself (i.e. the first line of “Z04.txt” is # Carpathia) Simply changing the name of the .txt file caused the game to crash. I tried to take a screenshot but the file was too large, if you need one I could try and trim it down to size.
I am on a MacOS running 10.9.1
Both EU4 and CK2 were purchased on Steam, along with all DLCs

Please help me resolve this issue as soon as possible!

 

[AndrewT]

The converter is a CK2 DLC so posts on it go there.

 

[Groogy]

There is currently an encoding problem for countries localization on Linux and Mac. If you are tech savvy you can manually change the encoding of the file to UTF-8 otherwise you'll have to wait until it gets fixed.

 

[LarryLeica]

There is currently an encoding problem for countries localization on Linux and Mac. If you are tech savvy you can manually change the encoding of the file to UTF-8 otherwise you'll have to wait until it gets fixed.

Any chance of an ETA as this has been present since launch making the convertor useless if you are on Mac or Linux?

I know it's fixable by hand, but it's a PITA for the end-user to have do something so utterly basic as correct the file encoding for a file written out by the game before it can be used in the game it was intended to be used in.

 

[Groogy]

Any chance of an ETA as this has been present since launch making the convertor useless if you are on Mac or Linux?

I know it's fixable by hand, but it's a PITA for the end-user to have do something so utterly basic as correct the file encoding for a file written out by the game before it can be used in the game it was intended to be used in.

At the moment there is no ETA that I can give I'm sorry. Hopefully soon.

 

[pianoman2013]

Given that I paid money for a product that doesn't work and there is no ETA for fixing it, I think the right thing to do would be to provide detailed information on how to change the encoding of these files. I am not tech-savvy enough to understand how this works and I would appreciate some advice.

 

[AndrewT]

The best place to get that would be the User Mods forum, I'd suggest.

 

[pianoman2013]

I started a thread, but if I get no help from modders this really does qualify as deserving a staff response. The save converter is broken.

 

[pianoman2013]

I started a thread 10 days ago asking how to convert to UTF-8 here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...nging-CK2-Save-Converter-files-to-UTF-8-(MAC). I have had no responses or help.

This is not a small issue, I paid money for this converter and it doesn't work at all. I'm really surprised at the Paradox response to this as you guys are usually responsive about bug reports. It's been dissapointing. The staff needs to help with this pronto. If you release a broken product the right answer isn't "go ask a modder to help fix it or something."

 

[AndrewT]

Can you get access to a Windows PC? If so just install the game there and use the converter on that platform, the converted save should work fine on your Mac. Aside from that, all I can do is Google "change text file encoding to utf-8" which I'm sure you can do as well as I can.

That aside, without knowing whether Groogy was referring to some specific utility or not I'm not sure what else to suggest - I'm very surprised you didn't get help in User Mods. Perhaps PM Groogy?

 

[zeress]

Might be because he's using Mac. I don't believe very many Modders use Mac. I have a tool to convert to utf8 but it's windows only :-(. Notepad++ can do it check for a mac version of that is all I can advise.

 

[pianoman2013]

Might be because he's using Mac. I don't believe very many Modders use Mac. I have a tool to convert to utf8 but it's windows only :-(. Notepad++ can do it check for a mac version of that is all I can advise.

Thanks for the response. I don't think many modders use Mac either, and unfortunately I have no PC to convert the files as AndrewT suggested. There is no Mac version of Notepad++ but I may try out TextWrangler as it appears to be able to do the same thing.

 

[LumberKing]

Which file(s) do you need to change to UTF-8 for the country names to display correctly?