Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: International characters in Poser files

kuroyume0161 opened this issue on Apr 22, 2007 · 3 posts


kuroyume0161 posted Sun, 22 April 2007 at 1:20 PM

This has gone without much ado as long as the text is part of a name (or internal name).  But it does become a stink if international characters are used for file references (figureResFile and so on).  I haven't yet been able to determine what format Poser uses to store the names - say something like this (which happens to be a name not a file reference): ƒtƒBƒMƒ…ƒA

Since there are quite a few possibilties here (EBCDIC, ASCII-ANSI, Unicode: UTF-8 and UTF-16, and variations anon) it is difficult to ascertain the format being employed.  My feeling is that this is a two-byte representation which will limit the choices to Unicode UTF-16.  This seems to be verified in Sci UniPad entering the two character hexadecimals (U+).  In this case, the result is kanji as expected from a Japanese source.

Any verification?

Thanks!
Robert

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