Non-English program captions aren't displaying correctly

[jbmorley]

The 'Strip Poker' app is a good example of this. 🤦🏻‍♂️😬

[jbmorley]

Interestingly, the Strip Poker app language selection doesn't seem to be stable: sometimes we get an English language string, other times we get the garbled Russian string.

[jbmorley]

While I'm curious to try fixing this, it's definitely not required for 1.0.0. Pushing to future.

[jbmorley]

[jbmorley]

It's now really easy to see this with the new AIF viewer.

[tomsci]

Do you have a link for this now @jbmorley so I can see what's going on?

[jbmorley]

I imagine it was https://archive.org/download/3-libjune-05/3LIBJUNE05.iso/library%2Fepocgames%2Fstrippoker%2FStripPoker.SIS.

[tomsci]

Confirmed, the Russian AIF caption is encoded in Windows-1251, and not Window-1252 like pretty much everything else. Which is understandable since 1252 doesn't have Cyrillic characters in it. It would be easy enough to fix in this one specific case, but I'm not sure how it should be handled generally. This particular app doesn't seem to have any actual Russian strings in it other than the AIF caption, so how eg a multilingual app should be handled, unsure.

[jbmorley]

I guess there's no clear way to detect the encoding and just massage it?

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2024, at 3:57 AM, tomsci wrote: Confirmed, the Russian AIF caption is encoded in Windows-1251, and not Window-1252 like pretty much everything else. Which is understandable since 1252 doesn't have Cyrillic characters in it. It would be easy enough to fix in this one specific case, but I'm not sure how it should be handled generally. This particular app doesn't seem to have any actual Russian strings in it other than the AIF caption, so how eg a multilingual app should be handled, unsure. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#87 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABV5V2RQDWZ4EIDC3CSTHDZV33DFAVCNFSM6AAAAABN2G436GVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDGNBQHA4DSNZYGM>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[kapfab]

Just my two cents…

The OPL CAPTION keyword only support 24 languages, most of which can be safely encoded in Windows-1252.
Out of these 24, I guess only Russian (1251) and Hungarian (1250), and maybe Turkish (1254), could need a specific code page mapping.

But I’m not even sure a single EPOC device ever left the factory with support for something else than Windows-1252, so considering a caption could be encoded differently might not be safe.
Localization apps brought support for a few other codepages, but that was not necessarily expected by Psion when they added the CAPTION keyword.

For the ÑòðèïÏîêåð → СтрипПокер → StripPoker case, it might just be the Russian developer had their OS software-localized and used cyrillic characters instead of the expected latin ones. There it was Windows-1251 but could have been KOI-8R.