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Does MAME support unicode ?
#327527 - 06/28/14 02:06 PM
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Re: Does MAME support unicode ?
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#327547 - 06/28/14 10:03 PM
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> I wonder if the official MAME or any other MAME derivate support unicode strings.
> Thank you.
> What game would have unicode texts ?
No games have/require Unicode text AFAIK (at least in the UI itself) - e.g. Japanese games are translated/romanized using the Latin alphabet, such as Daimakaimura (Japan) instead of being written in Japanese, or having the name Ghouls 'n Ghosts (which the Japanese version was never called).
I'm sure the font rendering engine can handle it, but I think the Windows command prompt would fail that task, especially on an older 32-bit OS, where Windows can use Terminal instead of Lucida Console (the latter does support Unicode).
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google say
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#327592 - 06/30/14 01:39 AM
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https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=mame+unicode
http://mamedev.org/source/src/lib/util/unicode.h.html
Viewing File: /src/lib/util/unicode.h
1 /*********************************************************************
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3 unicode.h
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5 Unicode related functions
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7 This code is for converting between UTF-8, UTF-16, and 32-bit
8 Unicode strings. These functions roughly parallel C runtime
9 library functions like mbtowc() and similar functions, but are
10 specific for these Unicode encodings. Specifically, there are
11 functions that convert UTF-8 and UTF-16 char clusters to and from
12 singular 32-bit Unicode chars.
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Re: google say
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#327595 - 06/30/14 02:26 AM
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Thank you. I know about the unicode + mame google search.
I was wondering if any game in MAME or UME use a game title/manufacturer with unicode format.
afaik, the -listxml output is XML language in a plain text file with some html format tags.
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xml's default encoding is utf-8 so you should interpret it as utf-8 unless a different encoding is specified in its xml element
....and if I remember correctly MAME' listxml output had one or two utf-8 chars in the past which might have been replaced meanwhile...could be a German Umlaut or something...
and don't forget to differ between an utf8/16 text file and its font-representation in editors.....common mistake of thinking something is wrong....:-)
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Re: google say
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#327612 - 06/30/14 01:24 PM
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Thank you for the reply. From my internet research, shouldn't the xml file have something like this to mark it as unicode ?
Code:
< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? >
MAME's -listxml output have only has the version tag. No encoding tag.
My frontend Emu Loader read this file as ANSI format, and I haven't notice any parsing errors (Delphi 7 compiler doesn't support unicode). I really need to upgrade to Delphi XE6 for full unicode support...
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if no encoding attribute is given it is utf-8 by default. to avoid confusion people should add the attribute though.
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Re: google say
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> This is good to know. Thanks again for the help.
MESS softlists definitely contain Japanese UTF-8 characters (e.g. x1_flop.xml), and I believe there's some Cyrillic and other non-Roman European stuff scattered around (umlauts, the German "sharp S" that looks like the Greek Beta, that sort of thing). If MAME doesn't already have this stuff it likely will in the future.
Edited by R. Belmont (06/30/14 05:01 PM)
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> Delphi 7 compiler doesn't support unicode
Have you tried Free Pascal Compiler + Lazarus?
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
I started using components that are used now in Lazarus way way back when I used Delphi 6 & 7 and they were already great. Now it's a pretty mature project, and aside some missing ultra-technical implementations that you'll probably not miss, it's a really complete compiler for most Pascal and Object Pascal dialects. It compiles code I wrote in 1997.
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Re: google say
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Yes, I checked Lazarus a while ago. Didn't like it much. Besides EL and EmuCon are very large projects. The main component EasyListView doesn't work with Lazarus, and ELV's author is not updating the project anymore, sadly.
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I managed to display unicode with Delphi 7!
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#329065 - 08/01/14 08:14 PM
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I found a UTF8Decode() function that works with MAME/MESS software lists. NeoCD show alt games correctly.
I wonder what is the format of the alt_title entries in software lists ? neocd.xml for example.
Code:
< software name="zintrick" >
< description >Oshidashi Zintrick (Jpn)< /description >
< year >1996< /year >
< publisher >ADK
< info name="alt_title" value="押し出しジントリック" / >
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Re: I managed to display unicode with Delphi 7!
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#329067 - 08/01/14 08:43 PM
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as said it should be utf8 unless someone messed up the encoding when committing. the visual representation depends on the font of course.
.... usually it helps looking at it with eg notepad++
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Re: I managed to display unicode with Delphi 7!
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Re: I managed to display unicode with Delphi 7!
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#329069 - 08/01/14 09:51 PM
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Thank you for the link. TStringList in Delphi 7 only handle ansi strings.
My frontend is now showing them correctly in the list 
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Re: I managed to display unicode with Delphi 7!
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#329071 - 08/01/14 10:03 PM
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> Thank you for the link. TStringList in Delphi 7 only handle ansi strings.
> My frontend is now showing them correctly in the list
Great!
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