Text Encoding

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