Name of certain item is in Korean gibberish about wzcomparerr2

[Kagamia]

WzLib has supported text encoding for future use. -> 3da9499

[KENNYSOFT]

Hmm.. that's interesting. If you can find the exact hex code for that '?' character really indicates, that would be helpful.

[Kagamia]

Interesting...
I find out the bytes by tracing the source code.
GMS v.179 string.wz, position: 3413826

	using (var fs = File.OpenRead(@"C:\Users\-\Desktop\string.wz")) {
		var br = new BinaryReader(fs);
		fs.Position = 3413826;
		br.ReadByte();
		int size = br.ReadSByte(); //-24
		size = -size; //negative size -> ascii chars,  positive -> unicode chars.
		
		var buffer = br.ReadBytes(size);
		
		byte mask = 0xAA; //GMS does not encrypted now, simple XOR with mask.
		for(int i=0;i<size;i++) {
			buffer[i] ^= mask++;
		}
		
		// print hex bytes
		string.Join(" ", buffer.Select(b=>b.ToString("x2"))).Dump();

		// print decoded strings.
		Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer).Dump();
		Encoding.Default.GetString(buffer).Dump(); //Simplified Chinese on my laptop
		Encoding.GetEncoding(949).GetString(buffer).Dump(); //Korean code page
		Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetString(buffer).Dump(); //West European code page
	}

Output:

41 72 63 61 6e 65 20 53 79 6d 62 6f 6c 3a a0 4c 61 63 68 65 6c 65 69 6e
Arcane Symbol:?Lachelein
Arcane Symbol:燣achelein
Arcane Symbol:쟊achelein
Arcane Symbol: Lachelein

The ? is a0H (1010 0000b) here.
WcR2 treat them as ANSI string so weird chars appeared on respective Windows systems. 😆

Is there a better way to decode these string? or, always use ASCII Encoding like Lab?

[Sunaries]

Are there pros and cons to using ASCII compared to ANSI?

[Kagamia]

I am almost sure that GMS client use CP1252 fixed instead of local Ansi encoding.
According to Wiki-CP1252, char a0H means nbsp here, so it is rendered normally in game.

Further, variant MS clients use a suitable encoding as their default Encoding, to decode ansi strings in wz, regardless of your system language and code page.

ASCII is a primitive encoding where only contains a charset of 126 chars. A character out of range will be decoded as a fallback char ?.

It's necessary to add more configuration to WzLib. I've no idea how to automaic recognize which version of wz file you are loaded. 😂

[Sunaries]

@Kagamia In the 182→183 update of today it is fixed. No idea why it didn't affect in-game...