Frotz/Inform with Umlaute (äÄöÖüÜß)

[Kohlkarpfen]

When I start a german Inform game (.z6) from ES german Umlaute (äÄöÖüÜß) are not displayed correct. But when I start frotz from the shell, it works fine. My local settings are set to german via RaspConf. What could cause this problem?

[mitu]

@Kohlkarpfen said in Frotz/Inform with Umlaute (äÄöÖüÜß):

frotz

Can you give more details about the ROM name and your system (https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first) ? You can see in the Runcommand log file (/dev/shm/runcommand.log) how frotz is started vs. how are you starting it from the command line - can you attach the log file to your post ?

[Kohlkarpfen]

Raspberry Pi 3 b+
RetroPie v4.4

Parameters:
Executing: pushd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/zmachine; frotz "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/zmachine/starrider.z5"; popd

When I start it from Shell I only change the directory to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/zmachine/ and run

frotz starrider.z5

[mitu]

What is the output of locale, when you run it from the terminal ? It looks like the game expects the terminal to have a Latin1 encoding, but I think that by default the locale settings set it to UTF8. I don't know how it works from the terminal - do you run the game (succesfully) after quiting Emulationstation or from a SSH session ?

[mitu]

OK, I found a workaround for this problem - which seems similar to this issue.
Edit the /etc/default/console-setup file (sudo nano /etc/default/console-setup) and change the

CHARMAP="UTF8"

to

CHARMAP="ISO-8859-1"

then reboot. After that, the game should run with the correct characters.