#2780 closed defect (fixed)
SIMON1 (French): Text wrongly displayed
| Reported by: | SF/hibernatus | Owned by: | Kirben |
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| Priority: | high | Component: | Engine: AGOS |
| Version: | Keywords: | original | |
| Cc: | Game: | Simon the Sorcerer 1 |
Description
Look at the screenshot. Line 3 (C'etait delicieux...) contains whitespaces at the end which make it take 2 lines instead of one.
Ticket imported from: #1538873. Ticket imported from: bugs/2780.
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Change History (22)
by , 18 years ago
| Attachment: | Spaces.gif added |
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comment:1 by , 18 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:2 by , 18 years ago
I think these text related bugs, occured in the original French version too.
It would be helpful if you could try the game under dosbox, to confirm if the issue occurs in the original game too.
You can use the saved game from ScummVM. in the original game too. You will just need to unpack (They are gzip compressed) and rename the filenames of the saved games.
comment:3 by , 18 years ago
Ah, you're right. Sorry. It's strange, because it's only because of the trailing whitespaces, so i thought the original engine would remove them, but it doesn't.
comment:4 by , 18 years ago
| Status: | new → pending |
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| Summary: | Simon1: Text wrongly displayed → SIMON1: Text wrongly displayed |
comment:6 by , 18 years ago
| Status: | pending → new |
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| Summary: | SIMON1: Text wrongly displayed → SIMON1 (French): Text wrongly displayed |
comment:7 by , 18 years ago
A work around might be possible, but I don't have the French version of Simon the Sorcerer 1 myself.
comment:8 by , 18 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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comment:9 by , 18 years ago
Couldn't you try to implement a workaround, then ask hibernatus to check whether it works?
For example, one could just alway strip trailing whitespaces when printing text. Or is that likely to cause regressions? If so, it shouldn't be too hard to only perform this for specific texts... ?
I would try to do this, but I am not very familiar with the Simon/AGOS engine, so it'd probably be done quicker if Kirben could try it. Or maybe Torbjörn is interested in looking into this?
comment:10 by , 18 years ago
I don't know whether or not it'd cause regressions. I'm not all that familiar with the AGOS engine.
I believe all those conversation messages go through showMessageFormat(), but there are other things that do as well.
comment:11 by , 18 years ago
It could cause a regression if a translation uses that "feature" to position sentences in front of numbers instead of numbers in front of sentences.
For example: 1 Blah blah... ...blah? 2 Blah blah?
translated to: 1 Bla bla... bla? <- blank line 2 Bla bla?
I've never seen that in the french version.
I don't see any other reason for a regression.
Here is a little tool which would help finding all the concerned sentences in every translation. http://hibernatus34.free.fr/simon/SimonTR.exe (windows only)
comment:14 by , 17 years ago
Could you please try the dump all subroutines option, in the next snapshot of ScummVM SVN, and attach a file of the output.
Start ScummVM via command line, with output redirected to a file. ie: scummvm simon1 > simon1fr.txt
Wait for the game to be displayed. Press 'CTRL u' to dump all subroutines. Wait a minute or two for output to complete. Quit ScummVM.
Then just attached the file 'simon1fr.txt', to this bug report.
The output should make it much easier to attempt a work around, based on the specific strings where it occurs.
comment:17 by , 15 years ago
This bug is nice to get fixed before the release. Raising priority for keeping the track.
comment:18 by , 15 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Priority: | normal → high |
comment:19 by , 15 years ago
| Keywords: | original added |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
comment:21 by , 15 years ago
For future reference: This problem effects the Polish version of Simon the Sorcerer 2 too.
Line 4 is wrongly displayed because of whitespaces at the end of line 3