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Ozric1847

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Is there a way to translate read me files?
« on: September 02, 2015, 06:11:41 PM »
I wanna be the 8possible got an update and I want to translate the read me file to see what has been updated.  Ive tried several translating sites with no luck. 

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Re: Is there a way to translate read me files?
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2015, 08:36:24 AM »
Google translate should be good enough.
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Re: Is there a way to translate read me files?
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2015, 09:04:36 AM »
If the readme looks like this:
(click to show/hide)

Then it's because the file is encoded in Shift-JIS and your computer doesn't have the Japanese settings installed to read it. If you download Notepad++ (an awesome text editor that everyone should use instead of Notepad anyway) then you can specify the encoding yourself:
(click to show/hide)

And then it should look like actual Japanese text!
(click to show/hide)

You can then copy this into google translate to see what it means.
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Re: Is there a way to translate read me files?
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2015, 09:17:28 AM »
Oh, I forgot about that, I use Notepad++ for japanese readme files too.
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Re: Is there a way to translate read me files?
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2015, 10:55:45 AM »
notepad++ master race
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Re: Is there a way to translate read me files?
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2015, 04:36:50 PM »
Awesome, good info.  Thanks

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