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About the accentuated latin characters, C2 does actually support the most common ones. Like ñ, à, é, ï, etc. Toshiba-3 14:48, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Are you sure? I've translated the game to Portuguese, and about one in every 20 words needs a Latin character. Logically, I tried adding them the first time, only to be disappointed that it doesn't support them. Although, I only tried it once. Maybe it was on a weaker font that didn't support it. {EspyoT} 18:49, September 4, 2010 (UTC)
Untwat serp30.twt for example (located into 64x48x8/FONTS) then unpack the pixies.p16 it contains and have a look at them with the old XnView. Here are the available accentuated characters: ç ü é â ä à å ç ê ë è ï î ì ä å é ô ö ò û ù ÿ ö ü á í ó ú ñ ñ. You can't easily add them though (with notepad I mean), their ref must be inserted with a hex editor (that's what I did anyway). I mean the standard ascii ref for these accentuated characters aren't the same as the ref they have in the C2 fonts. Toshiba-3 20:43, September 4, 2010 (UTC)
Ah... That explains it. I tried again, and no character worked in no font. That's great news for me. Thanks! EDIT: I opened and confirmed that they are really there (not that confirmation was needed). Although I'm a bit puzzled for the ascii references for the characters SCi used. I tried making some counts, but I couldn't find the characters. Would you mind telling me what's the code for 'ç'? From what I've looked, that's the first character, and the other are likely in the next numbers. {EspyoT} 00:14, September 5, 2010 (UTC)
In C2, the ascii ref for 'c' is 67d and the ascii ref for 'ç' is 128d. So when you open your text file with a hexadecimal editor and you want to replace a 'c' with a 'ç' you'll just write down the ascii ref in hexadecimal. 'c' is 43h and 'ç' 80h. That is all really :] (btw d stands for decimal and h for hexadecimal) Toshiba-3 23:46, September 9, 2010 (UTC)
Nuts! My Carma2 proceeds to crash when I change to those characters. 80h is the Euro character €, but in Carma2 it's the ç character. I tried placing it in a string and the game crashes. I tried with several fonts too, no luck. Did you ever get to see the latin characters in action? {EspyoT} 23:55, September 9, 2010 (UTC)
That's why I'm talking about hexediting. What's with the doubtful attitude? I've been editing the three Carmageddon games for almost ten years now. Harmalarm and me hacked fonts a lot for our respective latest mods. We replaced these accentuated characters by other ones and thus had to make them load in the menus etc. And actually I added a ç in a word appearing in the menus just before my third message here. I'm not sure all the C2 fonts have these accentuated characters but most do. Just grab a hex editor like hex workshop and use it to do the job. Test with this TEXT.TXT , it puts a 'ç' in Driven To Destruction in the multiplayer modes. If your C2 keeps on crashing then there's a problem with your installation. Toshiba-3 00:20, September 10, 2010 (UTC)
Yes, I've seen your 'works'. You've made several mods, about several things. I don't know if there's anyone out there that is in to Carma mods, and doesn't recognize you :) I just started doubting a little because it keeps crashing in my C2. Even with that TEXT.TXT. Damn. Well, I guess I'll try to reinstall the game. {EspyoT} 13:17, September 10, 2010 (UTC)
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