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Originally created in English, Oni has been translated into the following [[seven]] languages: French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese. | Originally created in English, Oni has been translated into the following [[seven]] languages: French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese. An overview of the known language versions can be found on [[OBD:Releases]], but the details of these releases' localized content are found on [[OBD:Localization]]. | ||
Depending on the language version, vanilla Oni uses one of the following five encodings to render text: | Depending on the language version, vanilla Oni uses one of the following five encodings to render text: | ||
*The original US version uses a trimmed-down [[wp: | *The original US version uses a trimmed-down [[wp:Mac OS Roman|Mac OS Roman]] code page that is effectively limited to [[wp:ASCII|US-ASCII]] (96 code points used, 256 available). | ||
*European localizations (UK English, French, Italian, Spanish, German) use a custom version of Mac OS Roman (192 code points used, 256 available). | *European localizations (UK English, French, Italian, Spanish, German) use a custom version of Mac OS Roman (192 code points used, 256 available). | ||
*The Russian localization uses a (nearly) full implementation of the [[wp:Windows-1251|Windows-1251]] (Cyrillic) code page (224 code points used, 256 available). | *The Russian localization uses a (nearly) full implementation of the [[wp:Windows-1251|Windows-1251]] (Cyrillic) code page (224 code points used, 256 available). | ||
*The Chinese localization uses the [[wp: | *The Chinese localization uses the [[wp:Extended Unix Code#EUC-CN|EUC-CN]] implementation of [[wp:GB 2312|GB 2312]] (7,668 code points used, 8,836 available). | ||
*The Japanese localization uses 1,357 code points mostly conforming to the [[wp: | *The Japanese localization uses 1,357 code points mostly conforming to the [[wp:Shift JIS|Shift JIS]] implementation of [[wp:JIS X 0208|JIS X 0208]]. | ||
Properties of the fonts that are eventually used to render the text (via the encoding) are briefly described throughout the page. | |||
Properties of the fonts that are eventually used to render the text (via the encoding) are briefly described throughout the page. A more thorough overview of the glyphs can be found on the [[/Fonts|Fonts subpage]] (to be created). | |||
==Encodings== | ==Encodings== | ||
===US English=== | ===US English=== | ||
Below is the code page implemented by [[TSFF]]Tahoma in the US English version of Oni. It is based on [[wp: | Below is the code page implemented by [[TSFF]]Tahoma in the US English version of Oni. It is based on [[wp:Mac OS Roman|Mac OS Roman]] ("MacRoman" for short), but with two differences: | ||
*Of the 223 printable glyphs provided by MacRoman, 42 are not implemented in TSFFTahoma (shown as grey-on-black). | *Of the 223 printable glyphs provided by MacRoman, 42 are not implemented in TSFFTahoma (shown as grey-on-black). | ||
*Control point 0x7F (a typically non-printable "delete" character) has a visible box-like glyph (◻) in this implementation. | *Control point 0x7F (a typically non-printable "delete" character) has a visible box-like glyph (◻) in this implementation. | ||