Non-latin-alphabet auto city naming

[Davidsk0229]

I've been trying to edit the Civilization Info XML doc to contain Cyrillic characters for the Russian cities. They seem to go in fine, but when I load it up, the game craps itself, regurgitates an error message about there being an error in line 1,1, and will only let me choose a "random civilization".

Anyone know how to do this?

I realise that I can change the name to one in another alphabet in-game... but I think it would be cool if the AI civilizations retained their culturally-specific alphabets eg. "Владивосток" instead of "Vladivostok", and "Αθήνα" instead of "Athens".

I knew nothing about scripts, XML, unicode or anything until about 48 hours ago, which is coincidentally around about the time when I decided to sprout this stupid idea.

I trawled over the site, read up on XML coding, and now know how to do some pretty cool stuff... but not exactly what I set out to do in the first place.

My IT savvy workmates hate me now.

[The_J]

You can't put the characters directly in, because, like you've already seen, civ will have problems reading them.
Instead you have to use the html encoding to display them properly.
Look at this table here, you hаve to put the &#1 stuff in the files.

[Davidsk0229]

Thanks for the assistance The_J.

I managed to get that far, and learnt about html coding.
I've tried this on a few occasions, and now everything is running fine with the game, except the characters are coming up as question marks, instead of the character they are to represent.
Currently I'm sitting with:

<city>Москва</city>

Where 'Москва' is entered in unicode with the whole &#blah strangeness. It's coming up fine here, but Civ is interpreting the city name as:

??????

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

This is for CivIV Beyond the Sword, if that helps...

I'll keep researching.

[Fuyu]

I bet this will never work because Civ4 can't handle unicode.
Even with HTMLEncode, what you can get is still limited to the 8bit ANSI set. And even if that wasn't so, I doubt the font used by civ would be unicode-complete, so all you'd see then would be strange boxes.

[The_J]

Can't really be, because there's a russion civ version out there.

i have really no idea at the moment.

[Davidsk0229]

I considered what Fuyu said before, and was thinking that perhaps there's a way to discover the font that Civ uses, and perhaps alter it?
Maybe there's also a way to make Civ read unicode extended?

I've been looking this up for a week, and still have nothing. It's starting to tire me.

I think maybe the Russian Civ still uses Latin characters? It's still possible to read Russian in this fashion, but it takes a bit of getting used to. If not, I'd like to know how they did it...

[The_J]

No, russian civ uses kyrillic letters,

Spoiler:

Fonts: That's a good idea.
In BtS\Resource\Fonts should the fonts be stored.
If the files don't include russian letters it will probably fail, i guess.

[Fuyu]

Russian Language mod
It seems to be possible, but the mod dl link doesn't work and I don't speak russian, so I don't know how they did it.