Question bout "Umlaut" and "special characters" (e.g. french) in LUA

[mctaylor]

Originally Posted by Baertram [...] some characters will not be shown correctly even if you use UTF-8 [without] BOM [...] e.g. the spanish character ñ : \195\177

One possible factor is that I doubt (I am guessing here) that it is handling "font substitution" so that if the current font (er, typeface or font family) does not have a particular glyph (e.g. ñ - 'n' with an accent/diacritic) the OS's type system (such as used in most traditional applications such as a web browser or word processor) will try to find the glyph in a related or "base" font (family).

I suspect the limited language support is somewhat reflective of the translations provided by Bethesda (no Spanish or Russia I believe).

So try to ensure the glyph is present in the font being used. I suspect many less common fonts (i.e. not system or general purpose fonts like Helvetica or Arial) will lack glyphs with accents. It is pretty common situation in "fantasy" or "fun" fonts.