Lord_Pachelbel

I'm trying to figure out the devs' style guide for mission dialog text.



Regular text is white because the window background is dark.

Mission titles are blue. (Are they also bold?)

Objectives/whole-sentence-requests/whole-sentence-commands are light green.

Character names are dark blue.


I remember seeing orange, yellow, and red being used, but at the moment I don't have any contacts that use them, so I can't remember the specifics. And what about bold text -- when is it used?

Coincidentally I filed a bug report about this tonight.

When you cut/copy strings with special characters from within the game, they lose their encoding.

1. You can copy special characters from outside the game and paste them in -- they display fine.
2. You can type special characters directly into the game (for example, using Windows codes such as Alt-0151) -- these will display fine.
3. If you copy special characters from within the game to paste elsewhere -- either in the game or outside the game -- the character encoding will be incorrect. Something is switching the encoding from Unicode (UTF-16 most likely) to what is probably ANSI.

This can be reproduced game-wide; it's not just in the MA system. For example, paste — into the chat box, highlight it in the game, copy it in the game, and paste it back into the chat box -- it will be broken.

You must be very, very brave. I wouldn't field questions from rabid players in a public setting.

Madness!