[ scummvm-Bugs-869271 ] LAUNCHER GUI: Unable to browse dirs with non-Latin names

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Bugs item #869271, was opened at 2004-01-02 15:42
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Category: GUI
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Vyacheslav Dikonov (sdiconov)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: LAUNCHER GUI: Unable to browse dirs with non-Latin names

Initial Comment:
Since some SCUMMVM supported games run in Russian I
would like to translate the Launcher GUI into the human
language :).  

Unfortunately the GUI design has major
internationalisation problems. The worst effect is that
even those, who understand English cannot find their
game files if they are stored in a directory with
non-ASCII name. The Launcher is not able to show any
Russian of other non-english glyphs and fills space
with garbage. I attach a screenshot showing the
uglyness. It is virtually impossible to navigate
through several levels of directories and find anything.

I tried to fix it by making an alternative font.cpp
file with full range of glyphs between 33 and 255, but
it did not help. Some deeper i18n support changes are
required. Basically the GUI needs to recognise locale
settings (at least for UNIX) and choose appropriate
font and string resourses (note: many languages may use
several different 8-bit encodings) or use Unicode
internally. 


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