Language support for Eastern-Asia

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  The new version of wiiflow can't display the correct eastern-asia languages (Chinese_S,Chinese_T,Japanese) in setting menu, all you see is nothing or empty blocks.
  But in coverflow or a game selected, wiiflow can display correct language from titlesdump.ini.

  I was using r92&r117 (with only one languages.ini), the language support is good.
  These days i try to use r133 or newer version(including r142,r152,r166), the language support does not meet my expect, it seems broken.
  Wish it be fixed in future version, Cheers.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by keiichi0...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2010 at 5:38

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please get the languages.zip file from 
http://www.wiiflowiki.com/configuration/languages or out of 
svn/trunk/wii/wiiflow/languages.

There was an issue where I forgot to add a blank line at the top of the ini, so 
they would not load before.

Im assuming you know already that the languages are all seperate files now and 
go into drive:/wiiflow/languages

Original comment by Miigotu on 5 Sep 2010 at 11:21

• Changed state: Fixed

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Yes, i already knew that the language file was seperate to several files. And i 
have use the new language setting.
My problem isn't that wiiflow doesn't recongnize these language files. In fact, 
it know them well, but can't show the correct "FONT".
For example, 'cfga6=Language' in English should shows 'cfga6=語言' in 
Chinese_T, but it displays '□□'(two empty blocks/boxes) on the monitor, not 
the original word '語言', and all other words also display '□□' instead 
of what they should be.
So, there still problems need to be fixed.

Original comment by keiichi0...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2010 at 1:32

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that has nothing to do with the language files, its the font itself, which 
doesnt support chinese characters.

Original comment by Miigotu on 6 Sep 2010 at 1:43

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So the problem is the font file ?

I don't know where is the font that wiiflow useing.

Does wiiflow uses different fonts in game setting menu and coverflow ? Because 
i can see correct font in coverflow (wiiflow read from titlesdump.ini)

Original comment by keiichi0...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2010 at 1:52

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yes, the problem is the font.  The only theme that supports chinese chars atm 
is nihonflow which you can find at: 
http://wii.spiffy360.com/themes.php?category=2

You could try adding to the default.ini:

[GENERAL]
button_font=JAPANESE.TTF
label_font=JAPANESE.TTF
title_font=JAPANESE.TTF

and putting the japanese.ttf from the nihonflow package into:
wiiflow/themes/dafault/japanese.ttf

You could also substitute any other font ttf file if you wish.

I cant guarantee this will work in the default theme but its work a try.

Original comment by Miigotu on 6 Sep 2010 at 7:26

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Maybe my japanese.ttf don't have all chinese characters
(because japanese and chinese are different),
so you should download font from http://zh-cn.cooltext.com/Fonts-Unicode+Chinese

Original comment by hosigumayuugi on 6 Sep 2010 at 9:21

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Yes, it works!!

By trying this method, i found why my old theme can't display the correct font 
in game setting menu.

All i have to do is modify all ini files, replace the label "[ GENERAL]" to 
"[GENERAL]" because of the new change began from r131.

This is all my fault, sorry for my rudeness.

Thanks for your time and your patient, Mr. miigotu.

Also thanks hosigumayuugi and all other people who were trying to help.

Have a nice day.

Original comment by keiichi0...@gmail.com on 6 Sep 2010 at 5:58

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Issue 358 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by Miigotu on 1 Oct 2010 at 10:37