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First post, by mark_

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Hi, I installed the german TIE Fighter Collector's CD in dosbox 0.74 and the game is playable, but there is a minor character encoding problem: Umlauts are generally left out and in the mission goal screen and the communication message bar during flight there are pipe symbols and garbage characters all over the place.
I attached example screenshots; in the goal screen it should e.g. be "Z-95 Headhunter Jäger 1 zerstört." and not "||d1Z-95 Headhunter| ||a4 Jger 1 || 1|p|Wzerstrt|w|M."

What could cause this and how can I fix it?

This is my configfile:

[sdl] fullscreen=false fulldouble=false fullresolution=original windowresolution=original output=surface autolock=true sensitivi […]
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[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=original
windowresolution=original
output=surface
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map
usescancodes=true

[dosbox]
language=
machine=svga_s3
captures=capture
memsize=16

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=normal3x

[cpu]
core=auto
cputype=auto
cycles=auto
cycleup=10
cycledown=20

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=44100
blocksize=1024
prebuffer=20

[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
mididevice=default
midiconfig=

[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=44100

[gus]
gus=false
gusrate=44100
gusbase=240
gusirq=5
gusdma=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=44100
tandy=auto
tandyrate=44100
disney=true

[joystick]
joysticktype=auto
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false

[serial]
serial1=dummy
serial2=dummy
serial3=disabled
serial4=disabled

[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
umb=true
keyboardlayout=auto

[ipx]
ipx=false

[autoexec]
mount c ~/opt/dosbox
mount d /media/dvd -t cdrom
c:
cd tiecd
tie

Reply 1 of 3, by ripsaw8080

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What OS are you using, and what regional and language settings is it configured for? I think DOSBox will pick up a German codepage if your system is using that because of the default keyboardlayout=auto setting, but maybe it's not working on your OS. Typing the command "KEYB GR" to set the codepage may help.

Reply 2 of 3, by Qbix

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I recall that keyboardlayout=auto does change to GR, but doesn't change the codepage

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Reply 3 of 3, by mark_

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I use Gentoo Linux with KDE, everything is UTF8 and german, my keyboard uses US-intl layout, I would not want to change that (especially for the game as they did not change the keymapping as part of the translation).