Chracter Conversion Failed!

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Chracter Conversion Failed!

by delfaminer(tm) » Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:52

Hello,

I downloaded the windows 64 bit cilent. I'm running windows 8.1 64 bit. Whenever I enter any text, i don't see it. Please see the screenshot. Adding language = en in minetest.conf didn't worked! Help me!
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EDIT : Searched the forum and found this : viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9890

But it didn't fixed my issue. ;(
 

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Re: Chracter Conversion Failed!

by Krock » Tue Mar 31, 2015 18:14

Rename the directory of that broken word to something with A-z characters only.
Minetest has problems with some languages, use latin letters to get around this problem.
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Re: Chracter Conversion Failed!

by Linuxdirk » Tue Mar 31, 2015 18:48

Translation and character handling in Minetest is utterly broken and unreliable as long as it is not Unicode and fully using Gettext for each string :(
 

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Re: Chracter Conversion Failed!

by delfaminer(tm) » Wed Apr 01, 2015 14:09

Thanks for the reply! ;)

Rename the directory of that broken word to something with A-z characters only.

I did that, and it worked.

But my main problem is that, whenever I enter text in username or password, I can't see it (like invisible) and I can't join any server, no matter what server i join it says invalid username...

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Re: Chracter Conversion Failed!

by delfaminer(tm) » Sun Apr 12, 2015 18:14

Please help. I really want to play it. ;(
 

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Re: Chracter Conversion Failed!

by Krock » Sun Apr 12, 2015 18:28

delfaminer(tm) wrote:Please help. I really want to play it. ;(

Also use A-z and 0-9 for your username and password.
Try changing your keyboard layout to an english one. (just for testing)
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Re: Chracter Conversion Failed!

by delfaminer(tm) » Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:50

double post. sry.
Last edited by delfaminer(tm) on Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:54, edited 1 time in total.
 

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Re: Chracter Conversion Failed!

by delfaminer(tm) » Mon Apr 20, 2015 10:53

Try changing your keyboard layout to an english one. (just for testing)

That worked for me! I changed the keyboard layout to English(US)!
Thanks a lot, sir!
 


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