Volunteer here glad to translate the game into Simplified Chinese

[iL]

Well, i think i know what to do with that:
1. I can draw any symbols on the canvas, to rasterize them. For example, i can get Unicode. I can draw them selecting any size i need.
2. next step - to convert appeared raster to war2-.fnt file.

So, i still need to know 2 things from you:
1. what are the codes of Simplified Chinese letters? From "A" to "Z". To let me know what symbols to draw.
2. what codepage you use on your OS? What are ASCII-codes from "A" to "Z" in range 0-255?

That 2 things should be enough to make a war2 font. Just a little more of my time.

[Jack Chen]

I see. No Chinese characters at all in the screenshot.

I am contacting a computer programmer of my own, who is also willing to get the classic game translated. He may join our discussion by today.

[Karlock]

Well, i think i know what to do with that:
1. I can draw any symbols on the canvas, to rasterize them. For example, i can get Unicode. I can draw them selecting any size i need.
2. next step - to convert appeared raster to war2-.fnt file.

So, i still need to know 2 things from you:
1. what are the codes of Simplified Chinese letters? From "A" to "Z". To let me know what symbols to draw.
2. what codepage you use on your OS? What are ASCII-codes from "A" to "Z" in range 0-255?

That 2 things should be enough to make a war2 font. Just a little more of my time.

Simplified Chinese use codepage  GB2312/GBK/GB18030. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/intl/code-page-identifiers)

For GB2312 , It contains 682 signs and 6763 Chinese Characters and the GBK contains 21003 Characters . Characters of GB18030 are more than 70k .

I'm worrying about the size of the generated bitmap font, huge buffer needed.

[Jack Chen]

Hi again. I found a txt, which seems to be what you asked for. Is this the Chinese ASCII Table you need?

[iL]

Simplified Chinese use codepage  GB2312/GBK/GB18030. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/intl/code-page-identifiers)

For GB2312 , It contains 682 signs and 6763 Chinese Characters and the GBK contains 21003 Characters . Characters of GB18030 are more than 70k .

I'm worrying about the size of the generated bitmap font, huge buffer needed.

Oh, 682 signs in Simplified Chinese?
As i understand, font should have no more than 256 symbols. 1 byte per 1 symbol.
That is how all old 1-byte charsets work as i know.

Please, look at human1.tbl, 411752230 uploaded yesterday. How many bytes per 1 Chinese Character it require?

[iL]

Hi again. I found a txt, which seems to be what you asked for. Is this the Chinese ASCII Table you need?

Well, i asked about a picture for each symbol, but here i can see only 2 random bytes, then ":" and then a number (it's code).
But that makes sense only if there's no more than 256 symbols in the table.
Not sure what to do if we have more...

[Jack Chen]

1 Chinese Character= 2 bytes
1 Chinese punctuation(full-width)=2 bytes

[iL]

1 Chinese Character= 2 bytes
1 Chinese punctuation(full-width)=2 bytes

I'd say most likely it's not possible to translate into Simplified Chinese then,
War2 is based on 1-byte charset, you have to use 2-byte. That is a problem.

I'd say you need to hook some functions drawing messages. To catch all the requests drawing message and change them to your logic.
I don't mean it's not possible, chinese version for DOS do that most likely. But that requires some kind of reverse engineering in the exe file.

Not sure if anybody here can do that.

[Karlock]

1 Chinese Character= 2 bytes
1 Chinese punctuation(full-width)=2 bytes

I'd say most likely it's not possible to translate into Simplified Chinese then,
War2 is based on 1-byte charset, you have to use 2-byte. That is a problem.

I'd say you need to hook some functions drawing messages. To catch all the requests drawing message and change them to your logic.
I don't mean it's not possible, chinese version for DOS do that most likely. But that requires some kind of reverse engineering in the exe file.

Not sure if anybody here can do that.

But can you help with the Wargus? Use that engine, it becomes possible. Replace bitmap font print function with TTF?

[iL]

Well, wargus is not war2, so there's no community there.
But yes, that should work on wargus.
And i'm not sure wargus use bitmap fonts at all. Most likely it uses Unicode or w/e, so you try to just edit fonts, maybe you will not need any font job.

[Lambchops]

bnet > wargus

some users only use 3 or 4 chars "-->" ,"game", "gg" ,"gg no re"

no way 256 chinese chars can work?

wargus can more than likely..but the engine still needs work to make it more like war2.

the main bnet chat maybe can 2byte.(nope its 1byte)

or maybe a chinese channel+bot that has 256 different styles of writing you type in the # of ur alphabet it combines ascii chars and maybe gets over 256

well it was an idea

Sure this sounds like the most realistic way to get some degree of chinese text support.

A custom 8 bit font with the most useful 255 chinese chars. I would be surprised if something vaguely like this does not already exist.

[Muz]

What about Japanese? Is this game translatable to Japanese?

[iL]

What about Japanese? Is this game translatable to Japanese?

How many characters are in japan alphabet? It's possible if less than 256 and i'd say it's not if more...

[Muz]

Characters? Japanese has around 2200 characters. Warcraft 2 can accept only 256 characters? The PS2 version of Warcraft 2 does has a Japanese version though.

[iL]

Characters? Japanese has around 2200 characters. Warcraft 2 can accept only 256 characters? The PS2 version of Warcraft 2 does has a Japanese version though.

I see, here's also a DOS-version with Simplified Chinese support. I mean that required some sufficient modifications. Original war2 uses 1-byte chaset, that means your can use an alphabet up to 255 characters or a little less.