How to use "special characters" (like Ö, Ä, Ü) in MapMarker names?

[YouDoNotKnowMyName]

Good evening everybody!

 

I have a question:

 

How do you use "special characters" like Ö Ü Ä in map-marker names, so that they actually get displayed in the game?

Whenever I try to use one of those characters, FO4edit gives me errors and the characters don't show up at all in the actual game.

 

 

I know that it is possible, because I have the "german version" of Fallout 4 and some of the map markers have those characters in their "displayed name".

 

If anybody knows how to do this, it would be really great!

[DiodeLadder]

Hello there,

 

Even though the game itself supports UTF-8 encoding of text, CK doesn't. It's best to make your .esp in English in CK, and then use ESP-ESM Translator software to translate it with proper character encoding :

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/921/?

 

The cool thing about this software is that, you can create a dictionary/template for your project, so that every time you need to update your .esp, you can just auto-translate everything instantly using the project dictionary.

[YouDoNotKnowMyName]

Thanks for the answer!

 

I will try that then ...

[deadbeeftffn]

You can use umlauts in CK by inserting the correspondig UTF8-Codes "manually".

 

ö -> ö
ü -> ü
ä -> ä

So, instead of "Gelände" you would use "Gelände"

[YouDoNotKnowMyName]

You can use umlauts in CK by inserting the correspondig UTF8-Codes "manually".

 

ö -> ö

ü -> ü

ä -> ä

 

So, instead of "Gelände" you would use "Gelände"

Thank you very much!

This helps a lot!

[DocMoebius]

It seems that there are more Germans active here than I thought.

[YouDoNotKnowMyName]

It seems that there are more Germans active here than I thought.

Not everybody that speaks german is from Germany :laugh:

I am actually from Austria ...