Europa Universalis IV double byte language patch

[Yangtse Su]

https://github.com/matanki-saito/EU4dll

Is it possible to integrate double-byte patch officially?

 

[gigau]

to the Suggestions subforum.

 

[Matihood1]

Out of curiousity, what are double-byte characters and how would this patch benefit EU4 (I suppose it has something to do with character encoding)?

 

[Yangtse Su]

Out of curiousity, what are double-byte characters and how would this patch benefit EU4 (I suppose it has something to do with character encoding)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII#Multi-byte_character_encodings

 

[Matihood1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII#Multi-byte_character_encodings

So what it means is that with this patch we could technically be able to use more special characters than we can right now? Now that's something I fully support. Is there a similiar patch for CK2?

 

[tcbbd]

Out of curiousity, what are double-byte characters and how would this patch benefit EU4 (I suppose it has something to do with character encoding)?

Well, this is important for CJK localization, because chinese characters are multibyte characters. Currently, the Chinese/Japanese localization mods rely on this patch.

 

[Matihood1]

Well, this is important for CJK localization, because chinese characters are multibyte characters. Currently, the Chinese/Japanese localization mods rely on this patch.

They could've just gone with Romaji for the Japanese localization

 

[tomato99delta]

They could've just gone with Romaji for the Japanese localization

Japanese people usually have difficulties in reading Japanese written in romaji. It's like writing Arabic or Russian with western alphabets. Romaji is for foreigners who can't read Japanese, I think.