Q: text and ... still text

[PyTom]

look at the attached pic( sorry, it is a big one).

Okay, let me see if I have this straight, so I can figure out where we stand as of now:

When saving as utf-8, the default font selection code does not work if you give it Chinese characters for the font name. It does work if you give it ascii font filenames, like "simsun.ttf".

The characters that are displayed on the screen are correct when saved as UTF-8, assuming that the font is correctly selected. (This is the part that's confusing to me... your example shows 3 characters before the comma in the "right one" example, but only 2 in the corresponding picture. The characters also look very different, at least to my eyes, which are not familiar at all with hanzi characters Is the correct text being displayed?)

[oyster]

When saving as utf-8, the default font selection code does not work if you give it Chinese characters for the font name. It does work if you give it ascii font filenames, like "simsun.ttf".

yes

The characters that are displayed on the screen are correct when saved as UTF-8, assuming that the font is correctly selected.

yes, again.

(This is the part that's confusing to me... your example shows 3 characters before the comma in the "right one" example, but only 2 in the corresponding picture. The characters also look very different, at least to my eyes, which are not familiar at all with hanzi characters Is the correct text being displayed?)

I am confused too ,so I attached another pic.

[oyster]

Well, I understand what your mean by asking

(This is the part that's confusing to me... your example shows 3 characters before the comma in the "right one" example, but only 2 in the corresponding picture. The characters also look very different, at least to my eyes, which are not familiar at all with hanzi characters Is the correct text being displayed?)

In a ansi text file, one Chinese Characters needs 2 chars. But for a utf_8 text file, I donno. I think it should be 4 chars, but it is (perhaps) 1.5( my god! ) chars when saved in SciTE.

[PyTom]

e, one Chinese Characters needs 2 chars. But for a utf_8 text file, I donno. I think it should be 4 chars, but it is (perhaps) 1.5( my god! ) chars when saved in SciTE.

utf-8 takes 3 bytes to encode most 2-byte characters. So you're seeing 6 bytes which your mbcs is rendering as 3 characters.

[DaFool]

I was thinking of doing dual text subtitle-style kind of like authentic Hong Kong movies, with the Chinese (or Japanese) on top of the English.

I haven't really read this thread in-depth, but I take it I just need to have that east asian .rpy and it should be good to go?

Now the next task is finding a translator...

[PyTom]

You also need to change style.default.font, to pick a C or J font, as appropriate.