LE Need help with writing books for a mod.

[Fatswordsman]

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

[Thandal]

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".

[Fatswordsman]

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?

[Tchos]

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.

[Fatswordsman]

Thank you, that worked pretty well. There are still some issues but I can work them out myself. Thanks a lot!

[Deleted2628341User]

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.

[Tchos]

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 "...").