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Forcing to UTF or ISO for Output ?

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Vampyre

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Hello guys,

Maybe you know this, maybe you don't. In my last project, I translated SW into my own language (french) for Hero Lab. Like that, it's way easier for me to get a reference from the book, and do not need to translate everything every single time I need to create a character.

So, now, I've finally managed to translate it, and create a test character for it. The problem I meet now is linked to that translation.

I'm pretty sure this is something to do with the output used in HL that annoys me. To make it shorter, this is what I get for a quick output into HTML.

bugrwhtml.PNG


I don't need to let you know that it causes me problem, especially when I'm talking about importing this inside RealmWorks. For those that are not used to french, all the "?" signs, are caused by an éèàù or anything else we use in our language. Of course it doesn't exists in english and therefore should not be a problem. But it is in french.

Another type of export shows me the same thing (this time, we are inside RW):

bugrw.PNG


Weirdly enough, saving the Custom Output give me this :

nobugrw.PNG


So, my question is : do you know how to force UTF-8 or iso-8859-1 ?

Many thanks for the help !
 
Further testings

Further testings led me to one conclusion : it's indeed the UTF-8 that's causing the trouble.

To test this, I've edited the result, in HTML, and replaced the UTF-8 section with the ISO one. This change made everything readable.

Now, the question is : where in the world is that defined ? I don't find anything like that in the templates.
 
Hi Vampyre,

You're correct that the encoding is causing problems here. Unfortunately the encoding of HTML output is built in to Hero Lab and there's no way to change how Hero Lab generates it - however, we are planning to solve this soon by switching the output to be "real" UTF-8. Once we make that change, this problem should go away and everything should work as expected.

Hope this helps!
 
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