Ego Dialog Problem. Bug?

[subspark]

I've scripted cEgo to say "<Sigh!> It's so peacefull here."

Whenever this runs in-game the <Sigh!> is turned into éSigh!>
I've looked through the manual and browsed through and searched the forums but there is no explination as to why <S seems to be read as an acute accent 'e'.

It's exactly the way classic LucasArts Adventure games used to indicate a non present sound or action. Always between a <>.
For example: <THUD!>

[strazer]

What speech font are you using?

Since there is a limited amount of characters in an SCI font (no accented characters, for example), the creator of the font probably replaced little-used special characters in the font with accented ones.
So if you wanted to have the character display saying "Café", you would have to script it as "Caf<".

I'm afraid there's no other solution than to avoid using these characters or use another font.
You also can import TrueType fonts, they support more characters, including accented ones.

[subspark]

Argh! So simple. It just didn't hit me seing that > showed up correctly. I don't know why anybody would make a font with > but not <. Odd.

[SSH]

They probably edited the font from one that had both and replaced the < with an é.

Did you use the Lucasarts GUI templates, btw, as these have such modified fonts in them, cause their author is Spanish, I believe.

btw, my Digraphs module can be used to turn e' or e/ into < in the case that you do want to use such a font. In the meantime, you may find the fonts on the ags resources page handy, or use Radiant's Font editor to modify SCI fonts yourself.

[subspark]

Yeah I figured. Cheers for that SSH.

[strazer]

Btw, the Digraphs module is here: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=23779

People (I'm talking to you, SSH! ), please try to link to the stuff you talk about.

[subspark]

Thankyou guys.