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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0006485Valley 1GUIMar 7, 2012 11:09 am
ReporterBobTheJanitor Assigned ToChris_McElligottPark  
Status resolvedResolutionopen 
Product Version0.905 
Summary0006485: Region names with underscore instead of apostrophe
DescriptionI have a regions on my continent with the names Starkah_s Plain and Octavian_s Heap. Presumably that should be Starkah's and Octavian's.
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Internal WeightPolish Tweak

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tigersfan

Mar 7, 2012 9:37 am

reporter   ~0020499

Bob, can you post the world file that is doing this please?

BobTheJanitor

Mar 7, 2012 9:56 am

reporter   ~0020504

Does it need to be a save made from the world map? If so I'll have to get it later. If not, then the save from this report: http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=6480 should have the same world, it's just a save from within the settlement. And if it does need to be from the world map, what files does that require? I'm assuming not the normal region folder.

tigersfan

Mar 7, 2012 10:02 am

reporter   ~0020505

That one should work. I just loaded it up and I'm seeing what you describe.

Chris_McElligottPark

Mar 7, 2012 10:02 am

administrator   ~0020506

Ninja'd by Josh -- I was going to say the same thing, thanks.

Chris_McElligottPark

Mar 7, 2012 10:30 am

administrator   ~0020508

So, Josh, this is something you can take care of. It's a UTF8-to-ASCII conversion issue with a lot of the region name files. I've tried cleaning up the special characters in the game itself (the curly apostrophe, etc), and in fact that does work -- when the file is saved in ASCII format to begin with.

But when the file is saved as UTF8, which somebody's text editor was apparently doing, then it winds up only being able to read the character in as an "invalid character" marker, which then we're converting to underscores so that there is at least not a hole there.

What needs to happen is that I need you to go through all of the files inside RegionNames, and replace all instances of ’ with ' instead. That will solve the issue for future worlds, but not existing pieces of existing ones (which are just doomed to underscores for eternity).

tigersfan

Mar 7, 2012 11:09 am

reporter   ~0020514

* All the apostrophes in the region names have been changed to the ASCII version. This should eliminate the underscores in region names of new continents/regions. Unfortunately, if your region has already been created with an underscore, it's stuck.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Mar 6, 2012 11:26 pm BobTheJanitor New Issue
Mar 7, 2012 9:27 am tigersfan Internal Weight => Polish Tweak
Mar 7, 2012 9:27 am tigersfan Assigned To => Chris_McElligottPark
Mar 7, 2012 9:27 am tigersfan Status new => assigned
Mar 7, 2012 9:37 am tigersfan Note Added: 0020499
Mar 7, 2012 9:56 am BobTheJanitor Note Added: 0020504
Mar 7, 2012 10:02 am tigersfan Note Added: 0020505
Mar 7, 2012 10:02 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0020506
Mar 7, 2012 10:30 am Chris_McElligottPark Note Added: 0020508
Mar 7, 2012 11:09 am tigersfan Note Added: 0020514
Mar 7, 2012 11:09 am tigersfan Status assigned => resolved
Mar 7, 2012 11:09 am tigersfan Product Version 0.904 => 0.905
Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am Chris_McElligottPark Category Bug - UI => GUI