Text in Mac OS X is based on Unicode, which provides a unified solution to supporting the languages of the world.
Unfortunately, GridGammon (more specifically, the Windows client) is not Unicode savvy; it uses an older, less powerful mechanism that requires you to choose which language you wish to use. This language will be used in all chat windows, as well as the player information in the Lobby window.
To select a text encoding in GridGammon, choose Text Encoding > from the Edit menu. |
GridGammon supports more than a dozen languages, and 30 different text encodings:
Language | Encodings |
---|---|
English* | ISO Latin 1 (default) |
Japanese | Shift JIS, 2022-JP, EUC, Shift JIS X0213 |
Traditional Chinese | Big 5, HKSCS, Windows |
Korean | ISO 2022-KR, Windows |
Arabic | ISO 8859-6, Windows |
Hebrew | ISO 8859-8,Windows |
Greek | ISO 8859-7, Windows |
Cyrillic | ISO 8859-5, KOI8-R, Windows |
Thai | Windows |
Simplified Chinese | EUC, HZ GB 2312, GB 18030 |
Central European | ISO Latin 2, Windows Latin 2, ISO Latin 4 |
Vietnamese | Windows |
Turkish | ISO Latin 5, Windows Latin 5 |
Central European | ISO Latin 4 |
Baltic Rim | Windows |
Unicode | UTF-8 |
*and most western European languages