AGS 3.4 patch 4 : Japanese ANSI

[Monsieur OUXX]

The AGS 3.4 patch 4 update mentions :

Fixed game compilation on systems which have Japanese ANSI or similar locale
as default locale for non-Unicode applications.

Does that have impacts in the game's Japanese fonts and/or Japanese translation? Or is it just a compilation thing? Is it possible to make a game in Japanese?

[Crimson Wizard]

The AGS 3.4 patch 4 update mentions :

Fixed game compilation on systems which have Japanese ANSI or similar locale
as default locale for non-Unicode applications.

Does that have impacts in the game's Japanese fonts and/or Japanese translation? Or is it just a compilation thing? Is it possible to make a game in Japanese?

It does just what it sais: fixes compilation on those systems, because it was broken since previous version. Nothing else changed.

I do not know if it's possible to make game in Japanese. I'd think you would need some kind of hacks to make all letters work.

[Monsieur OUXX]

Irrelevant to the original question, but out of curiosity I investigated briefly, and I think it would be possible to do a game in Japanese with 60 to 200 characters. The basic 50-something characters are the "katanaka" (see a pixel font here : https://www.colourbox.com/vector/pixel-japanese-katakana-vector-18520378 and you'd be probbaly more comfortable with some extra characters, that make it up to about 200.
Then of course there are thousands of ideograms (kanjis) but I think you can do without them.

[Gilbert]

Actually read also this.
My links are broken for obvious reasons, but I may hunt for the files if anyone really cares.