Problem with "umlauts" in German Games... (3DS, Switch, Android)

[blaizx]

Files (e.g., images) with umlauts in the filename (ä, ü, ß, etc.) will not load in the game.
no difference between unpacked or ZIP archives. what means "deflate compression"?
i tested zips, created with this command
for /d %%i in (*) do "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip -mx=9 "%%i.zip" "%%i*" -scsUTF-8
(without "-mx=...", and with "-mx=0")
it makes no difference.

everywhere same "bug"... 3ds, switch and android.
only in windows it works for me (+ retroarch).

you could try it with the game "Die Reise ins All" for example.
https://rmarchiv.de/games/50

Gabry said, this problem at nintendo-switch-version is caused by ... :"That's a bug in Nintendos file system driver: It interprets everything as Shift-Jis (Japanese encoding) even when the filesystem has a different encoding."
but on Android is the same bug!
Windows is ok.
Retroarch on nintendo-switch with easyrpg-core has not this bug. but laggy sound bug^^

I could test easyrpg-player with wii or wiiu too

greetz

[Ghabry]

Can you share the non working zip archive?

[blaizx]

I've already given an example (you have to scroll down to the "Downloads" section).
But here are a few more games with the same problem:

1 Die Reise ins All (by realTroll) https://rmarchiv.de/games/50

2 Das Geheimnis von Brownsea Island (by DPSG Rhede) https://rmarchiv.de/games/2754

3 Wolfenhain (by realTroll) https://rmarchiv.de/games/25

4 Alternate - Virus of Ragnarök (by Rosa Canina) https://rmarchiv.de/games/14

5 El Dorado (by realTroll) https://rmarchiv.de/games/16

6 El Dorado 2 (by realTroll) https://rmarchiv.de/games/17

7 Schuld und Sühne (by Ben) https://rmarchiv.de/games/1619

8 Unterwegs in Düsterburg (in the intro for example) (by Grandy) https://rmarchiv.de/games/68

9 Antagonism (by Noa) https://rmarchiv.de/games/375

I use EasyRPG-Player-0.8.1 "Stun" on all platforms

[Ghabry]

I just tested "Die Reise ins All": Works fine. I just download the ZIP and open it in EasyRPG Player.

Are you sure that you didn't corrupt the filenames while extracting the game? E.g. look in the folder "Die Reise ins All/Monster". There are two files "Bär2.png" and "Bär3.png". Do the Umlauts look correct for you?

[florianessl]

I just downloaded "Die Reise ins All" & can confirm that EasyRPG does indeed have some encoding issue for my Android version...
Plenty of Umlaut-files are referenced right at the start of the game:

Also, viewing the contents of the ZIP through my usual file manager seems to have the same issue:

I verified that the ZIP file hasn't been changed, by copying it to PC & comparing it to a clean download there. Files match. So this encoding bug hasn't been introduced by some file service repackaging of the ZIP or anything similar..

Android version running:
"Android 15 - BP1A.250305.019" on a Pixel 7 Pro

[blaizx]

Same Problem with my Nintendo Switch on LineAgeOS (Android TV 14).
But the games working without problems on my Nintendo Switch, when I use Lakka (I used Lakka-Switch.aarch64-4.2.7z) <3

[Ghabry]

WTF it really fails to load the files from the ZIP archive on my phone.

I tested this in Waydroid (Android for Linux) and the Android Emulator and there it works.

This makes 0 sense at all. I used the same APK file everywhere.

[Ghabry]

Coool, I broke this few weeks before the release by reimplementing the non-portable StringIsAscii function (checks if a string is only consisting of English characters).

How can you break such a simple function? Turns out the signedness of char is not signed but implementation defined (are you kidding me?!) so on some architectures it is actually unsigned instead of signed and my assumption that non-ASCII characters are negative is false.

Turns out on ARM architectures it is unsigned so the ASCII check succeeds and the encoding detection is skipped.

And on x86 it is signed so I didn't notice it while testing the code on Windows, Linux and the Android emulator (which is also a x86 system) 🤦

We must create a new release...

[blaizx]

another problem: I cannot install the 0.8.1.cia on my new3ds. (maybe because my new3ds is not uptodate?)
but the old 0.8.cia installs properly.

not an issue but a 256x256-picture switch-users could use to make a forwarder with https://nsp-forwarder.n8.io
(NRO Path: /switch/easyrpg-player/easyrpg-player.nro)