Non-Latin1 characters & Savegames

[HappyG]

Ello

So far we have played rougly 10 multiplayer games in 2-3 players games, and sofar we were unable to finish any of those. Everything goes fine untill we save the game and continue some other time. After that game randomly lags like hell (hardware lag), crashes to desktop etc... When you multiply this by 3 players involved, obviously no one has the will to play on...

Anyway, there's a particular Bug I'd like to report, and that is problem with non-latin1 character directories when handling save games. My windows username has latin2 character "ž". Saving game appears to be working okay, but when I try to load the file, I can normaly browse through My Documents (although character "ž" in directory path is replaced by a square) and see the saved games. Once I try to load 'em however, it just throws me to main menu, without an error message. If I manualy move my saved games in a latin1 directory tree, everything works fine.

 

[vsk]

Hi!
I had the same problem with Greek characters as well! What I did was to create another user account with latin characters and play Civ4 through it!
There is also this path setting in the civilizationIV.ini file

; Save Path - relative to working (Civ4) folder
FileName = 0

but I couldn't set it properly

 

[HappyG]

Thanks for reply, I already solved this problem by creating username Civ, its a solution, but of course I'd like to see this fixed in next patch .)

 

[panzooka]

the problem of this is because they are using the "Unicode()" function in python, which will screw none ascii characters, another bug related to this one is the option menu not being displayed, because your sound card have special characters, because the music folder path selected has special characters.

i have made a fix to the option menu by changing the function to "str()" which works, perfect.

u may go look for the python files and check for Unicode() function, and change to str(). and see if it do anygood for u