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Problem with the random wrestler generator

Drunken FoolPosted on 03/17/09 at 00:50:52

I noticed that whenever a name that has a foreign accent or character is used, the generator generates said names in some sort of weird characters instead of the one that is supposed to be in the name.
Drunken FoolPosted on 03/17/09 at 00:54:31

Benoît Broum for example gets saved and comes out as

Beno�t Broum in TNM
CarlzillaPosted on 03/17/09 at 01:53:35

Yep, this is a problem with DOS and Windows not being totally compatible. I tried to take out any of the strange characters I noticed, but obviously I missed some. There is no fix to this short of replacing the characters in the data files used for generation.
Drunken FoolPosted on 03/17/09 at 16:44:47

On 03/17/09 at 01:53:35, Carlzilla wrote:Yep, this is a problem with DOS and Windows not being totally compatible. I tried to take out any of the strange characters I noticed, but obviously I missed some. There is no fix to this short of replacing the characters in the data files used for generation.
You know what's weird? I find that regular French or Hispanic accents work well, but other foreign accents don't at all
MamushiPosted on 03/17/09 at 17:15:58

Possibly because the use of tildes, graves and acutes are more commonly seen by English users in borrowed words than say circumflexes, carons, and kroužeks. Possibly more commonly used in general by languages that use a latin based alphabet.
PlutarPosted on 03/17/09 at 20:32:23

Kudos to you sir. I didn't even know what some of those things were called.
MamushiPosted on 03/17/09 at 21:00:53

On 03/17/09 at 20:32:23, Plutar wrote:Kudos to you sir. I didn't even know what some of those things were called.
it comes with the interest in linguistics.