Japanese language troubles with GRFCodec

[Minoru]

Hello,
Here I have a japanese language town names nfo file that I couldn't compile properly with grfcodec on by box.
Town names language selection list shows only trash while nforenum gives warnings like this:

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//!!Warning (144): Offset 4: Control character 97 should not be used in this string.
//!!Warning (143): Offset 7: Using unspecified control character 9C.
//!!Warning (144): Offset 25: Control character 96 should not be used in this string.
//!!Warning (143): Offset 34: Using unspecified control character 9C.
//!!Warning (144): Offset 38: Control character 89 should not be used in this string.
//!!Warning (144): Offset 39: Control character 8B should not be used in this string.

I'm using UTF-8 encoding.
Guys managed somehow to make chinese town names NewGRF and it compiles without warnings, but I can't determine what kind of magic does they use.
Any help is appreciated.

[planetmaker]

Unless specificially stated, grfcodec assumes ascii. UTF-8-encoded strings must be preceeded by the thorn character, which corresponds to the two bytes C3 9E

untested, but try:

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    2 * 41	 0F 80 7F C3 9E "日本語" 00 00 02
    		 02 00 02 
		 	03 C3 9E "横" 00
			01 C3 9E "æ–°" 00
		 02 02 02
		 	03 C3 9E "浜" 00
			01 C3 9E "手" 00

Btw, have you considered going the potentially easier way through using NML?
See http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/townnames

[Minoru]

It really helped, thanks you!

[Minoru]

Also, can I combine two chains in a such way that the every town name will be one of produced by only one of that chains and never a concatenation of them? I really don't need town names such as 川湊川.

[Alberth]

Do you mean like combining both sets of names into one set?

Sure you can. If you have not too many, you can combine them in one.

If you have more than what NFO can handle in a single chain, make several smaller chains (such they fit in an NFO entry), and then make a 'main' chain that picks one of the smaller chains.
(In other words, to pick a name, it must do two steps, first select a smaller sub-chain from the main entry, then in that smaller sub-set, select the name.)

I coded this in NML (and then quickly forgot the NFO details). In NML, you just make one big set of names, and the program will handle splitting in sub-chains, etc.

[Minoru]

The problem is that I can't find it in NFO format specification. The way of combining described in http://newgrf-specs.tt-wiki.net/wiki/ActionF only concatenates the carthesian product of two chains.

[planetmaker]

Look at http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/german-t ... ATEST/log/ to find an example.

[Alberth]

The problem is that I can't find it in NFO format specification. The way of combining described in http://newgrf-specs.tt-wiki.net/wiki/ActionF only concatenates the carthesian product of two chains.

Set bit 7 of the probability of a part, that makes the part point to a previously defined action F.

In that way, you can pick a previously defined set by some probability.

[Minoru]

It helped, thanks!