SHN Editor

[Alsm97]

Yo,

I'm in a great mood today thanks to a certain somebody who helped me fix a minor problem that I got greatly annoyed of, fixing it tho took its time. Anyway.

So I'd like to know, what Encoding does the SHN Editor v3d use to Read and Save/Write the .shn files? Does it change depending on the SHN file it reads, like for instance TextData.shn?

I'm writing my own version in c# and I'd like to know any detail you guys can give me. Of course I didn't start from scratch, I found an old released source of an SHN Editor (not the ones we use today) so I'm adding a few tools I find useful. But the most important part of an SHN tool is obviously Reading and Writing the SHN Files. So, thanks in advance. Have a good day!

Regards,
Alex

[MentaL]

[Riko]

You can use whatever text encoding you like I think ^^;
The game just cant display all. I would use ISO-8859-1

ISO/IEC 8859-1

Edit: Oh, i think i misread the post...well maybe still useful~

[Alsm97]

@Riko I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.. xd My options are limited, I believe. My options as far as I know (I'll see If I can use any other Encoding's as well) are ASCII | BigEndianUnicode | Unicode | UTF32 | UTF7 | UTF8.

Does this help or make sense to you?

[Riko]

Oh If you really mean the text encoding I do recommend ISO-8895-1.

[Alsm97]

I'll see what happens If i use that. When I try to save TextData.shn with my tool, UTF7 will not save it. It gives me an error saying "Padded string is too long". Probably because the bits of some string in this file is larger that 7 bits or something..

[Myth]

UTF7/UTF8 will be suffice for anything you're wanting to do; you wont want to use anything other unless you're trying to read bytes from other languages (such as a JP client or CN client), in which case you'll want to find the appropriate encoding used.

No clue why you're having an issue with it; most likely you're not storing the bytes properly and/or some other miss-coding issue.

I personally use UTF7 purely because it doesn't remove the odd character I want to use (such as a + sign or others).

[Alsm97]

@Myth Well, I just tried re-saving the file as is. I didn't change anything to it, really. I wonder why the error as well.. But ISO seems to be working quite good actually plus it's Greek and I might wanna use Greek chars on something.. Never know..

[NextIdea]

I'll give you good advice.
Don't bother with encodings, handle everything as byte array and you don't need to worry bytes getting broken by encoding differences.
I must say using string is much easier but then you must be aware of the encoding.

[Alsm97]

Thank you for the good piece of advice, I'll keep that in mind. I don't want to go into such big process just yet as I'll have to re-write Csharp's SHN Save/Write code and once I start, I feel like "Challenge Accepted!". I can't do much now as I'm ready to move to Sweden and... you get me. Another problem I have is that it won't save the .shn unless I "Run as administrator", but when I "Run as administrator" I can't drag and drop the files into the SHN Editor because lower-privileged processes can't drag and drop to higher-privileged ones on Win Vista and later. Any clue how that was pulled out on the public SHN Editors?

[NextIdea]

You want to drag&drop from one editor to other?
Is this really necessary?

[Alsm97]

No, I mean drag and drop the file from Windows Explorer to my SHN Tool. And yes I got really used to it and it's quite the useful feature.

PS: Drag and drop the file into the Form is what doesn't work as administrator, drag and drop to the SHN_Tool.exe works fine.

[NextIdea]

As I'm not Vista/Win7 user can't help with such problems.
I can only suggest to use Google and try different solutions.

[Alsm97]

I see. Thank you for showing some interest into this! I'm pretty sure i'll end up finding some workaround in the end.
Have a good day.

-Close thread please.

[Kanaye]

I Search a SHN Editor q_q with iso because ö ä ü ^^" can who help me pls
Skype: kanaye-gaming
Can you already tell I can not write scripts or programs.
I would be very pleased if you could help me :)

[Cyndaquil]

I Search a SHN Editor q_q with iso because ö ä ü ^^" can who help me pls
Skype: kanaye-gaming

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