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scenegg

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Letters getting replaced with weird icons.
« on: December 20, 2015, 08:10:54 am »



I am using SpaceFox. How do I fix this?
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Shonai_Dweller

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Re: Letters getting replaced with weird icons.
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2015, 08:35:44 am »

You wait until Dfhack is updated to the latest version and use TWBT to fix it. That's just how Spacefox looks in vanilla DF.
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Re: Letters getting replaced with weird icons.
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2015, 08:56:39 am »

You wait until Dfhack is updated to the latest version and use TWBT to fix it. That's just how Spacefox looks in vanilla DF.

Well, crap.
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Re: Letters getting replaced with weird icons.
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2015, 09:25:11 am »

This happens because the game does not distinguish between "gameplay" icons, such as a dwarf, a coffin, and a shrub, and "text" icons, such as a smiley face, a zero, and a colon. In vanilla ASCII DF, each item in that list corresponds to the other, so if the game wants to say "here's a coffin" and "here's a zero [most often used in the FPS indicator]", it uses the same letter: a zero.

But graphics replace BOTH the "gameplay" and "text" icons, so any zeroes will be shown as coffins, any colons as shrubs, and so on.
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Re: Letters getting replaced with weird icons.
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2015, 10:07:52 am »

Thanks for the information, can't wait for DFHack to be updated so this can be fixed.
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Re: Letters getting replaced with weird icons.
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2015, 11:33:00 am »

Or you can play with the "ASCII" (really code page 437) symbols, the way Toady One intended.
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