I've heard that HOI4 will support the charset utf-8.It's a good news for the East Asian players and modders.So how about Stellaris?
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Would Stellaris support the charset utf-8?
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I'd be surprised if it didn't. Both were developed at the same time and are Clausewitz Engine games.
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Nitpicking here - UTF-8 is an encoding not a character set - the character set is just Unicode. UTF-8 is just a way of expressing Unicode in terms of binary data.
More on-topic, from a software perspective, I would imagine if HOI4 is supporting it Stellaris will, but not necessarily. The problem with changing encodings is that many parts of the code will depend on it, and any tools or frameworks that have been written ontop of the game may also need changing. UTF-8 is a particularly nice encoding because it's effectively backwards compatible with ASCII (i.e. the really simple set which only has 128 characters). However, Paradox aren't using that as we've been able to use accented characters in previous games, and those will have to be encoded differently. That said, it's possible many of their internals are already using it, but for example, EU4's save files don't appear to be in a Unicode encoding.
There's also the question of font, as it's one thing to express a character in binary form and a completely different thing to visualise it.
More on-topic, from a software perspective, I would imagine if HOI4 is supporting it Stellaris will, but not necessarily. The problem with changing encodings is that many parts of the code will depend on it, and any tools or frameworks that have been written ontop of the game may also need changing. UTF-8 is a particularly nice encoding because it's effectively backwards compatible with ASCII (i.e. the really simple set which only has 128 characters). However, Paradox aren't using that as we've been able to use accented characters in previous games, and those will have to be encoded differently. That said, it's possible many of their internals are already using it, but for example, EU4's save files don't appear to be in a Unicode encoding.
There's also the question of font, as it's one thing to express a character in binary form and a completely different thing to visualise it.
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Hmm... so, it may not support?
I saw Zoft was using characters of Klingon here. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/unicode-support.887882/page-3
What does it mean? These characters aren't multibyte?
Paradox says their localization is in UTF-8 (HoI4 Forum). But EU4's "Localization file" is in UTF-8 too.(and it didn't support multibyte characters!)
I think we can't determine whether it supports multibyte or not without seeing they use such characters in the real game.
I saw Zoft was using characters of Klingon here. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/unicode-support.887882/page-3
What does it mean? These characters aren't multibyte?
Paradox says their localization is in UTF-8 (HoI4 Forum). But EU4's "Localization file" is in UTF-8 too.(and it didn't support multibyte characters!)
I think we can't determine whether it supports multibyte or not without seeing they use such characters in the real game.
Yes 
On the more serious note I think it's been confirmed in past threads. I've asked myself that.
On the more serious note I think it's been confirmed in past threads. I've asked myself that.
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Is it a collage picture??
Yes
On the more serious note I think it's been confirmed in past threads. I've asked myself that.
Must be, since I doubt Paradox got the rights to use images from Knights of Sidonia ^^ (cool Anime-series, btw.)
Old answers from this topic:
If anyone didn't get it, this was a test event I wrote to show you that we, as of last week, have unicode support
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