Scandinavian characters in SCI/SCI Studio..?

[marikka]

As default I can't use scandinavian characters (

[Brian Provinciano]

All you need to do is draw fonts with the characters you need, and you're set! If you put all the characters in the right place, you've be able to use them when typing scripts in SCI Studio.

[marikka]

Exuse my dumbness but what do the numbers 1-125 represent? ASCII characters? Because sadly enough those characters are part of the extended ASCII character set...

BTW. The Font tester raises a Access violation if I try to type a "

[Brian Provinciano]

The characters are ASCII, yes. Unfortunately, SCI only supports 128 characters.

[marikka]

  Ohww.. the pain...

Seriously speaking, Would it be in any way possible to implement also the extended chars?

If not, where are the bottlenecks? The SCI interpreter? The SCI Studio?

And thanks for your replies Brian. I do appreciate the whole project a lot.

[lskovlun]

Unfortunately, SCI only supports 128 characters.

That's true in the case of SCI0, yes. SCI01 and later are fully 8-bit clean.

[Brian Provinciano]

I don't plan on supporting SCI01 in SCI Studio, but I will support SCI1 in the near future.

[marikka]

yippee!

thanks Brian. I'll wait for the SCI1 impatiently....

[marikka]

As for SCI0 I guess I could take some characters that I don't need and draw

[Brian Provinciano]

You could always do an English verison in SCI0, then the Scandinavian version in SCI1

[OmerMor]

Did sierra produce an SCI0 game in your language?
If they did, you could try to find one, look in it's resources, and see how they implemented those extra characters.
I know that an Hebrew game was never out, but that's OK - we're used to play in english here in Israel...  
  Omer Mor.

P.S.
If I already brought up the fact that I'm from Israel - did you know that in Conquest of Camelot, there are some hebrew graffiti on the walls of Gazza that warns you from thiefs and bad food, all in (bad) hebrew?

[marikka]

Did sierra produce an SCI0 game in your language?

A Sierra game in Finnish? That would be fun.
Hmm.. Come to think of it, maybe it would be possible to remake a Sierra game in Finnish, if they used the text resources, but I can't possibly see a reason why ..

[OmerMor]

Maybe they did produce a translated versions of on of their SCI0 games in finnish.
I know there are german versions of some games, so why not finnish?
But you should know better than me.

[marikka]

I know there are german versions of some games, so why not finnish?

Germany's population: 84 million
Finland's population: 5 million

That's why not.

[OmerMor]

Only 5 million? really?
So how can you explain all those really great bands from finland?
I listen to lots of bands from finland (nightwish, stratovarius, adagio, amorphis, and many more) so I thought there must be many millions of people there to justify the huge amount of taleneted musicians!

I'm sorry I went so off-topic guys, but I'm shocked with this news about finland  
Israel BTW has more than 6 millions, but it seems to me like such a small country :-)

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.

   Omer Mor.