Thanks Quadraxax. I tried it and I get the same result, it doesn't work.

Just an idea, didn't test it:
What, if you use "file_asc_read" instead of "file_str_read", and then "str_for_asc"?

Thanks Pappenheimer.

file_asc_read (handle)
Reads a byte (0..255) out of the file with the given handle

The problem with that is that unicode fonts extent past 255 bytes.

@ David Yes, and No! the binary representation in the text file, I'm pretty sure still will be in some byte/char/8bit length, the problem is how this is encoded. As fast as there are string/char functions and so on involved You must know how it was implemented. I was tempted to make a hasty comment, but the sanity hold me off, and I locked UTF up a bit on Wikipedia UTF It's a "bit" complicated, least to say.

As a fast and dirty trick, I would open up your text file with a HEX editor of some kind, try other applications like Wordpad or MS Office, Open Office, Google translator function on Internet usw. Check the differences and or put these different code into your test for GameStudio until it gets right. Then you know at least what application you have to use to create textfiles for the game.

Your example reminds me when I tried to translate a Japanese text file, I had to try out some applications before the cut and pasted text was considered anything else then (/%&&/%¤"#% by Google translator.

that could be indeed a problem.

Most windows applications save textfiles with ISO-8859-1 or ANSI encoding, perhaps what the engine needs is a file with UTF-8 encoding(preferably without signature). Have you tried re-saving the file in notepad by selecting UTF-8 encoding?

Or maybe even the other way around, I dont recall how it was exactly right now. In any case, it couldn't hurt to try different file encodings.

David, I know that Dreamweaver saves documents in UTF-8 format. Perhaps you can use that text editor to get the properly formatted document.

This is Mark @ Brethren- tried saving the file as UTF-8 and using a unicode font in A7, but no go. I have a few words in japanese and a few in english and the english displays fine, but not the japanese. I've tried it with only japanese too, though it shouldn't matter, and it's still garbled. Simon thinks that the engine is only grabbing a byte at a time when rendering instead of double byte (which is consistent since the garbled japanese is twice as many characters as the input japanese text). Really curious how others got the text to display in the screenshots above!

I'm not sure why ur having this problem, this is the code in my game(it has Chinese in it)
string strChat0[1000];
string strChat1[1000];
string strChat2[1000];
string strChat3[1000];
string strChat4[1000];
string strChat5[1000];
string strChat6[1000];
string strChat7[1000];
string strChat8[1000];
font newfont4me = "Arial",1,20;
text txtChat
{
pos_x = 680;
pos_y = 500;
layer = 30;
strings = 9;
font newfont4me;
flags=visible;
string = strChat8, strChat7, strChat6, strChat5, strChat4,
strChat3, strChat2, strChat1, strChat0;
red=255;
blue=0;
green=0;
}
But it works just fine maybe it's cause I have a Chinese version of Windows^

Thanks so much for the reply bomber! Are you loading your text from an external file, or are you able to type in Chinese strings in SED with the Chinese version of windows?

I am sorry that I am new to 3DGS.

My problem is that when I type the Chinese characters using MS IDE, it turns into some strange symbols when executing. I have set the default to the Chinese character. When I type, I can see the Chinese displayed properly. The problem only occurs when I run the script.

What do I need to do? Do I need to define the Chinese font? Id so, can you show me an example?

Many thanks.