Scandinavian characters in SCI/SCI Studio..?

[lskovlun]

About the REAL topic - I don't know too much about the variations in non-english alphabets, but maybe one of the non-english speaking versions sierra made does have other special chars, and you could learn from the way they implemented it how to make yourself a nice finnish alphabet in SCI.

Unless one is willing to sacrifice a few characters from low-ASCII, it can't be done.
Sierra themselves never sold a translated game made in SCI0. The first one that I know of
(and have had a chance to look at) is a German Space Quest 3. The original is SCI0, the translation
is SCI01. Since Brian isn't going to, I'd volunteer to code the support myself
(we don't really have to support the whole thing), but I don't have a suitable build environment.
I have written a detailed description of how multilanguage support is done in SCI01 which I intended
for the FreeSCI docs, but Christoph hasn't had the time to upload it yet.

[lskovlun]

About the REAL topic - I don't know too much about the variations in non-english alphabets, but maybe one of the non-english speaking versions sierra made does have other special chars, and you could learn from the way they implemented it how to make yourself a nice finnish alphabet in SCI.

Unless one is willing to sacrifice a few characters from low-ASCII, it can't be done.
Sierra themselves never sold a translated game made in SCI0. The first one that I know of
(and have had a chance to look at) is a German Space Quest 3. The original is SCI0, the translation
is SCI01. Since Brian isn't going to, I'd volunteer to code the support myself
(we don't really have to support the whole thing), but I don't have a suitable build environment.
I have written a detailed description of how multilanguage support is done in SCI01 which I intended
for the FreeSCI docs, but Christoph hasn't had the time to upload it yet.

[OmerMor]

Guys, I've got the German version of SQ3 (Thanks Lars!) and I must tell you it's great!
It's actually multilingual: You can choose to play it in German or English!
You can independently control the language of the text, the input, and you can even see the text in both languages! And you control this from whithin the game itself (not from the install program), so it changes the languages in runtime.
I don't think putting links to full games is permited in this messageboard, but since this game is both abandoned, and highly educational for the SCI community, I think I'll put the link anyway:
  http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~israelt/sitra/New%20Site/SQ3Ger.zip

Enjoy,
  Omer Mor