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Developer Journal: Mulchman

Posted 1 decade ago Programmer
It's been about a week since my last journal... I'm still working on the class menu & team menu - mainly adding in support for localization and different languages. One tip I'd like to give people so they don't waste as much time as I did - save your <modname>_<language>.txt files in unicode! If it's just plain ascii, your tokens won't work in game and you'll waste a lot of time doing stupid stuff to figure out why! Or, if you're a better reader than me, you would have gotten that out of the VGUI 2 SDK Documents. It's mentioned very briefly once (and I obviously read right over it) towards the end - "Language resource files are encoded as Unicode."

Anyway, hopefully later this week I'll be past the team & class menus and doing something else.
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