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2 - Europe With a Bang

Translation on the ebm currently focuses on the European languages, as the character set comes with automatic support for their characters. So the good news is that you are ready to translate with no changes to the operating system:



Entering these special characters varies from system to system, and occasionally editor to editor. Under Windows, you can enter these characters in combination with the Alt key and the numeric keypad; for instance, the key combination Alt-0196 will enter a capital 'a' with the umlaut above it ('Ä'). In code, you can also use the hex value; for instance the string for 'Espaņol' could either of the following:
  char *lang=" Espaņol";
  char *lang=" Espa\xF1ol"; // \xF1 is char's hex code
In the future, it is quite reasonable that Franklin will move into other languages (such as those of Asia), but for now we can primarily target for those languages that have their own operating system versions: English, Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.

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