Fatswordsman Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Hello there. I'll just get straight to the point: I'm trying to write some books for a mod I'm making, but when I check them ingame, every quotation and apostrophe shows up as a big square. Is there a way to fix this, maybe changing fonts or something? Don't know how. Also if it matters, here's a picture of the problem- http://i.imgur.com/TbGMV.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 It's not the font, it's the specific characters. However you are encoding the text, it's not pure ASCII and so can't be correctly displayed in-game. (The "block" just substitutes for any unrecognized character.) Try using a straight ASCII text editor (like "Notepad") to create the text, then copy-paste it into your mod. For more info, see this page for some of the various character codes: "Commonly Confused Characters". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatswordsman Posted May 5, 2012 Author Share Posted May 5, 2012 This is uhm, actually pretty catastrophic, because all of my stories are here- http://skyrimchat.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=stories - and I no longer have the documents in my PC. When I copy and paste them from there into Notepad, then into the CK, it still doesn't work. Am I really gonna have to retype everything, there's nothing I can do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tchos Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 You need to convert the "curly" apostrophes and quotation marks into standard ones. You can do a search and replace in a text editor or word processor to do that. Copy and paste one of the curly beginning quotation marks into the search field, and type a normal quote in replace, and replace all. Then do the same for the curly end quotation mark, and also for the apostrophe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatswordsman Posted May 5, 2012 Author Share Posted May 5, 2012 Thank you, that worked pretty well. There are still some issues but I can work them out myself. Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted2628341User Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 You need to convert the "curly" apostrophes and quotation marks into standard ones. You can do a search and replace in a text editor or word processor to do that. Copy and paste one of the curly beginning quotation marks into the search field, and type a normal quote in replace, and replace all. Then do the same for the curly end quotation mark, and also for the apostrophe. Hm, I was not aware of that method, I simply learned my lesson after the first time and started using notepad to write my in-game books, the first time I went through and re-typed each punctuation mark that didn't appear right. Fortunately the story wasn't all that long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tchos Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Right. The same thing applies to any other punctuation that isn't present in the target font (whatever they're using in-game), such as em dashes (replace with "--") or ellipses (replace with "..."). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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