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tummai
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« on: May 24, 2010, 09:15:27 am »
Does anyone know of a free hex editor that supports unicode table files?  I'm running Windows XP.  I downloaded several hex editors (WindHex, Translhextion, GoldFinger, Thingy32) but none of them seem to display unicode Japanese characters correctly.  Some support Shift-JIS, but that's not good enough for me Smiley
Gemini
Guest
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2010, 02:11:53 pm »
Actually, WindHex does support Unicode as an S-Jis conversion mode.
DarknessSavior
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« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2010, 02:51:54 pm »
Yeah. WindHex is basically your only good option. Just hit Ctrl + D to get the Japanese text to display properly once you've loaded a Japanese table.

~DS
tummai
Guest
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2010, 04:52:23 pm »
Hmm.. Then maybe my problem is that I don't know how to type in S-JIS.   My table file is Japanese, but it's UTF-8 and shows up as gibberish in WindHex.  As a test I copy/pasted some S-JIS characters into it and they show up correctly.  Anybody know how to get S-JIS output using Windows' Japanese IDE?
DarknessSavior
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« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2010, 04:54:15 pm »
The way I make tables is thus: open JWPce, save it as an .sjis file. Then change the file extension to .tbl.

~DS
aishsha
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« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2010, 05:14:20 pm »
Quote from: tummai on May 24, 2010, 04:52:23 pm
Hmm.. Then maybe my problem is that I don't know how to type in S-JIS.   My table file is Japanese, but it's UTF-8 and shows up as gibberish in WindHex.  As a test I copy/pasted some S-JIS characters into it and they show up correctly.  Anybody know how to get S-JIS output using Windows' Japanese IDE?
I've experienced it a couple of times - sometimes the conversion goes wrong and you got a wrong table in WindHex - in any case, check it in JWPCE before loading and delete unnecessary symbols, spaces that may appear.
FinS
Guest
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2010, 07:39:43 pm »
I am in agreement that support needs to be added for unicode/utf8.

The easiest temporary solution I have is to open it up in notepad++ and change the character set to shift JIS and save it that way.
tummai
Guest
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2010, 12:59:44 am »
Thanks everybody.  I downloaded jwpce and was able to save in S-JIS format just fine.  I was able to get my table running in the game I'm working on.  Awesome!   

Still wish there was utf-8 support in the hex editor though.  Would take away the need for the extra program.  Is WindHex open source?

@FinS: I actually use notepad++, but didn't know it could convert to shift-JIS.  Maybe I have an old version?
KingMike
Guest
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2010, 11:49:45 am »
I don't think WindHex is open source. It was written by Bongo, who only seems to visit the Dynamic Designs board these days.
I don't think he's updated it in quite awhile either.
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