error lanuage file help

[alexab6]

Hey i recently figured out how to create new states by editing the nextext fil in the config folder. However any time i add new text into the file and save it and run vic i get the message "error in language file, token "# New Countries #". The game still runs fine and the modification i make show up. Just the error message at the start of the game is annyoing. Is there anything i am doing wrong that is causing this problem?

 

[unmerged(131989)]

Edit it with notepad (or another standard text editor), not excel. Ensure that all of the relevant data is split with semi-colons.

 

[alexab6]

Edit it with notepad (or another standard text editor), not excel. Ensure that all of the relevant data is split with semi-colons.

Thanks for the advice but i just tryed that not luck. This is what i am writing "AREA_EXTRA_47;Central Iran;;;;;;;;;;X" (minus the quotation marks)

If i am doing something wrong please let me know. The error message doesnt hamper my ability to play the game its just annoying to lunch the game and have that come up

 

[unmerged(131989)]

Thanks for the advice but i just tryed that not luck. This is what i am writing "AREA_EXTRA_47;Central Iran;;;;;;;;;;X" (minus the quotation marks)

If i am doing something wrong please let me know. The error message doesnt hamper my ability to play the game its just annoying to lunch the game and have that come up

I think there are a few state tags which are bugged. I remember trying to make a "Kriti" (Greek for "Crete") state, and it wouldn't work for some reason? Try another tag, perhaps??

 

[alexab6]

I've tryed a couple of the other tags no luck could it some how be a problem with the new excel or vista?

 

[alexab6]

ok i figured its not a tag problem its an excel problem. I figured this out by saving an orginal copy of the newtext file and then replacing the old copy with the new copy. I didnt make any changes so there shouldnt have been any error message but there was. Some how something is going wrong when excel saves the file. I am currently saving the file in csv (comma delimited) format. Is it possible that this format is the wrong one?

 

[RELee]

ok i figured its not a tag problem its an excel problem. I figured this out by saving an orginal copy of the newtext file and then replacing the old copy with the new copy. I didnt make any changes so there shouldnt have been any error message but there was. Some how something is going wrong when excel saves the file. I am currently saving the file in csv (comma delimited) format. Is it possible that this format is the wrong one?

Yes, it is wrong. It should be saved as a plain old ASCII text file. That's why it is almost always recommended that modders find themselves a good text editor for modding file. I abhor Microsoft's notepad. It has too many limitations. You need to find a good programmer's text editor. I use an old one named Editpad, and being set in my ways I haven't looked into upgrading it in about 8 years. I know there are some others with some neater options, but Editpad does what I want it to do.

Another thing pointed out in another thread is to insure that your Windows explorer options are set so that you can actually see your file extensions. Notepad has a nasty habit of changing your file extensions to .txt without your permission, and if you are using the default explorer options, you never see that .txt extension when browsing through the game files. You get an error because the game is unable to find the file named prussia.csv because Notepad renamed it to prussia.csv.txt and you don't know it. It's called "Hide extensions for known file types" and it's always checked by default. Uncheck it if you are going to be programming.

Just my opinion.

 

[alexab6]

Relee you figured it out that was my problem.