Quote from varjsa-9 :

This looks interesting .. could you send a side view too ?

Side view.

http://www.vesta.dti.ne.jp/%7Ektaka/DSCN0460.JPG
http://www.vesta.dti.ne.jp/%7Ektaka/DSCN0461.JPG

Here are my H shifter and pedal.







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HighBridge
My Japanese LFS HP.
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/highbridge200x
http://whrt.web.infoseek.co.jp
http://liveforspeed.jpn.ch

Quote from Scawen :

Oh, that is a pity because this whole section of code was inspired by the Japanese input! Sorry but i can't do anything to fix it now because Q is the official patch, not a test patch (the patches with a number are test patches... we release official patches when we think there are no more bugs - and everyone gets the official patch). Now i have to go and work on other things.

How to fix the problem without me making a change...

Technically, you need to send a WM_KEYDOWN message to LFS with the value VK_T (same as ASCII for 'T'). And that's what opens the text box.

Maybe a programmer can make an external program that sends the WM_KEYDOWN message to LFS.

I am surprised that it doesn't work - we had this problem at one point with Russian and Greek keyboards, when it was translating their keypress into a Russian or Greek character. But the problem was solved, by using the plain WM_KEYDOWN message instead of the translated WM_CHAR message. It must be that the Japanese IME somehow stops the WM_KEYDOWN message from being sent to LFS.

I have checked WM_KEYDOWN and VK_T values.
Press Japanese conversion key: E5(Hex)
Press T key: 54(Hex)

Is this information useful?
Sorry I'm not Windows programmer.illepall

I found bug by using Japanese keyboard.
Can not enter to text box by pressing T key.
This problem occurred only when using Japanese text conversion(IME).

- Enter text box by pressing T key.
- Enter Japanese conversion mode by "Kanji" key.
- Input Katakana by Roman character.
- Convert to Katakana by pressing F8 key.
- Displayed Katakana after pressing enter key.
- Re-enter to text box.
But can not display text box by pressing T key...
Can not display text box forever after problem occurred.

But working well by P4 patch.
This problem is occurred on P5-P12 and Q patch.

A very long race can be done in S2.
However, because it is not possible to rewind it when the replay of the race
is seen, it is very inconvenient.
It is needful function.
other racesims can it.

Quote from Scawen :

Highbridge, please can you run this attached exe and then paste a screenshot of the results? English example is attached...

You can see on the forum main page i'm asking for more info about some other languages. But, because we've already tested Japanese, this is the only extra info we need.

Here is result.
http://whrt.web.infoseek.co.jp/data/00000.jpg

HighBridge

Quote from xaotik :

This could also be used for the language file, no?

http://image.space.rakuten.co. ... 76/img6c0abdf636oe1o.jpeg

Quote from Scawen :

Hello highbridge.

For testing, i have made a modified abc.abc with Half Width Katakana (attached) - like Windows Codepage 932 or JIS X 201

I think you must set your keyboard input mode to "Half Width Katakana" but i don't know about keyboard modes... so i don't really know if that is a normal thing to do. On my computer, i can enter the Katakana characters by pasting these Latin characters :

¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬*®¯
°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿
ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏ
ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞß

Please can you test the abc.abc and tell me :

1) Does it work ok - can you enter the Katakana characters with your keyboard?

2) Are my characters readable - or do some of them look wrong?

[ note : this is just a test - there is more to do for proper international support - i would like the correct characters to appear on all screens, but of course that would not happen with this test version - on a European's computer the Latin characters would appear ]

Thanks Scawen

We have checked it.
It is nice font
That's Great!!
It is very useful for Japanese racer.

1) Does it work ok - can you enter the Katakana characters with your keyboard?

Yes,
How to input Katakana.
1. Input T and enter message box.
2. Input kanji convert key.
http://whrt.web.infoseek.co.jp/img/Capu0046.jpg
3. Input F8 of shortcut key.
http://whrt.web.infoseek.co.jp/img/Capu0047.jpg
4. Input Enter.
http://whrt.web.infoseek.co.jp/img/Capu0048.jpg

http://whrt.web.infoseek.co.jp/img/Capu0050.jpg

2) Are my characters readable - or do some of them look wrong?

Perfect!!
Thank you very much.

HighBridge

Quote from Scawen :

Thanks for showing me the code pages. Until now, i did not know there was a single-byte code page which could support Japanese.

So now i'm having a look at the single-byte code pages... this may be an easier way to support some more languages, including Japanese (Katakana only), Cyrillic, Greek... but it would not support Kanji or Chinese Characters. I still have some more investigation to do.

Yes, this is 8bits character.
calling JIS X 0201. (not ISO)
JIS is Japanese Industrial Standards.
I found English page
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~aelias4/encodings.html

I want to be replacing the font data from 0xa0 to 0xdf with the katakana.
A lot of Japanese might not think the Kanji character to be necessary.

Thank you for the explanation.
Therefore i need know file format of abc.abc.
Maybe impossible...

Eupopean font.


Japanese font.

Thanks!!!
I'm checking SRAPI.

[QUOTE]

HighBridge
[WHRT] WorkaHolicRacingTeam@JP

Thanks,

It seem that bitmap is not included.
What data included in file?
Character code?
I do not have idea.


>Unfortunately not, but as a complete guess have you tried looking at it as a large >bitmap; perhaps Scawen is bliting the text to the screen.
>
>Or, slightly more likely, given the scaling; its vector based? Just some food for thought.

I think two ways.
1. Font is rendered from base font.
2. Font is made by LFS.


>i think the font is rendered in 3D and not just a bitmap.
>At least it looks like that.

I am analyzing font file of "data\abc\abc.abc".
However it is not imaginable file format.
I wanna make new font file and replace to "katakana" character.
Do you know file format of abc.abc?

I am analyzing font file of "data\abc\abc.abc".
However it is not imaginable file format.
I wanna make new font file and replace to "katakana" character.
Do you know file format of abc.abc?