Quote from AndroidXP :

Yeah, the license names themselves will, but I guess the player names will be customizable. Maybe automatically display the license name if the custom name contains an unavailable character?

That would be sensible, or maybe make the display name latin only ...

I think LFS will soon be the game with the most translations ever

Quote from ATHome :

I think LFS will soon be the game with the most translations ever

OK...*WHO* is going to volunteer to translate it into Botswanan?

Quote from ATHome :

I think LFS will soon be the game with the most translations ever

Quenya anyone?

Quote from Scawen :

Oh yes the other reason why it's not yet released to the public is to give the translators a bit more time to test and complete their translations.

Quoting for the screenshot really, I see I've been promoted to AI 3.

:ices_rofl

Quote from Scawen :

This is because Chinese has something like 20,000 characters, not just 26.

If you don't mind, does that mean LFS is going fully Unicode? Or are you using some other multi-byte encoding for these languages?

Quote from Bladerunner :

OK...*WHO* is going to volunteer to translate it into Botswanan?

Why not our dear ATHome, since he obviously comes from there?

Quote from duke_toaster :

I can see asian fonts for some reason.

Actually all recent windows version should have these characters installed. I am actually running a english windows and neither did I have any problem with most languages except Indian Hindu.

Quote from JJ72 :

Actually all recent windows version should have these characters installed. I am actually running a english windows and neither did I have any problem with most languages except Indian Hindu.

not by default
all of them can install them on demand (like when you open a japanese website with ie) but a fresh install wont have them available

Quote from wien :

If you don't mind, does that mean LFS is going fully Unicode? Or are you using some other multi-byte encoding for these languages?

No, not fully unicode. The text strings are code page based. Double byte characters are represented by a special lead byte followed by a second character. So double byte characters are included in a "single byte" string.

So the new version will be 100% compatible with Patch Y, except people in the old version will see random looking Latin-1 characters if they see some double byte text.

For more info about how the code pages work, look here :
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/WinCP.mspx

Unicode is used internally though never seen by the user, to create the characters from the code page information now stored in the abc file.

Quote from herki :

Why not our dear ATHome, since he obviously comes from there?

I'll start with it right after my buddy lerts finally finds the truth about roswell and what kennedy and the mayas had to do with it

Quote from ATHome :

I'll start with it right after my buddy lerts finally finds the truth about roswell and what kennedy and the mayas had to do with it

Tomorrow afternoon, then?

Quote from Scawen :

No, not fully unicode.

Ah, I see. Thanks.

Quote from Bladerunner :

Tomorrow afternoon, then?

No he is currently kidnapped by Elvis. So it could take some time.