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Special characters inside a Substitute

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Creepy_Socks
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Special characters inside a Substitute

Post by Creepy_Socks »

Hi I'm translating a simple time skin wich uses a substitute to get the numbers into words. The problem is my language uses the leter ë and this won't show properly.
I looked up the character table ( https://unicode-table.com/en/00EB/) but I don't know how to implement this.
Thanks in advance.
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CodeCode
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Re: Special characters inside a Substitute

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Hi, you need to change the encoding of the ini file to the one that is oriented for you lingual code. That is saving the file using probably Notepad and save as encoding... for your region. You can google what that is and save your file that way.
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Re: Special characters inside a Substitute

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Creepy_Socks wrote: November 18th, 2020, 9:40 pm Hi I'm translating a simple time skin wich uses a substitute to get the numbers into words. The problem is my language uses the leter ë and this won't show properly.
I looked up the character table ( https://unicode-table.com/en/00EB/) but I don't know how to implement this.
Thanks in advance.
These tips may also help: Unicode-In-Rainmeter :great:
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balala
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Re: Special characters inside a Substitute

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Creepy_Socks wrote: November 18th, 2020, 9:40 pm Hi I'm translating a simple time skin wich uses a substitute to get the numbers into words. The problem is my language uses the leter ë and this won't show properly.
CodeCode's above suggestion is probably what you have to do. Encode the skin's main .ini file either to UTF-16 LE (using Notepad) or UCS-2 LE BOM (using Notepad++). for details see this: https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=33243&p=165012#p165012
If this doesn't help, please pack the whole config and upload it here, to can check what's going on.
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Re: Special characters inside a Substitute

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The encoding helped, thanks a lot guys!
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balala
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Re: Special characters inside a Substitute

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Creepy_Socks wrote: November 19th, 2020, 8:28 am The encoding helped, thanks a lot guys!
Ok, I'm glad.