Translate the Empires Quick-Start Guide (and Manual)

Well the manual editing is - in my view - to complicated. We have to much manual sources ( look at http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=18767 ). I think, we should use the Steam-Guide section at http://steamcommunity.com/app/17740/guides/ . It is very easy to use (userfriendly!!), and it can be done with co-authors.

D.D.D. Destroyer , I made a Polish Icon for you (look at the second post of this thread). It would be really cool, if you use it. :-)

 

I take it the file should also be saved as UTF-8, then?

 

If it were a pure .txt file yes ofc. But not sure what would happen if you save a .html as ANSI encoded and then let it load in the browser that takes the UTF-8 encoding from the meta tag... basically those are just the same numbers that get interpreted differently according to encoding. :confused:

 

It would read it as a UTF-8 file. A plain text file doesn't store the encoding scheme someplace where you can't see it. There's literally no difference between a .html and a .txt file, only how something might interpret it.

That's the exact reason there's a meta-tag in the first place specifying the encoding, because there's no way to get it from the text itself.

 

You da real MVP.

I'll check it out tomorrow.

 

Great!! Could you upload this guide to http://steamcommunity.com/app/17740/guides/ please? The icon in my second post may be relevant for you

 

It's on www.empiresmod.com/quickstart/, but the server doesn't seem to be serving the files as UTF-8: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6080299/298945

Fixed, turns out you need to set the Byte-Order-Mark explicitly and save in UTF-8 (possible with Notepad++ in menu Encoding)

 

Where are the Russian, Spanish and French players? It would be great, if you can spend some time for translation (e. g. the Quick-Start Guide)....

 

Nearly done with copying over the French Quick-Start Guide translations. It really is an absolute pain because I have to map the translation manually back into the HTML file.