That looks to me like Unicode (specifically UTF-8), so any string functions that can handle Unicode strings should be able to handle it just fine, no need for convoluted parsing or anything.

Are the first two bytes FE FF (or FF FE)? If so, it probably uses UTF-16 encoding (not that this really helps with your question). Nope. I think that's only used as a standard that's only really useful when sharing your files with others. I think with formats like these, their engine would parse al...

Are the first two bytes FE FF (or FF FE)? If so, it probably uses UTF-16 encoding (not that this really helps with your question).

All right, will-do.

I knocked the protection down to semi (meaning registered users can edit it), so you should be able to work on it now. Now, here's hoping the vandals don't come en masse...

The main page needs a lot of work. One of these days I'm going to have to sit down and rewrite the whole thing, I think, but I keep putting it off. =D

The only ones bugmenot has listed for the forum are "bm1", "bmn", "bugmenott", and "abcpoker". This is for forum.xentax.com on bugmenot; xentax.com is blocked. Do you know if the username "gjinka" was listed under "xentax.com" before "...

gjinka2 wrote:I mean the forum

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Okay, but which account? The only ones bugmenot has listed for the forum are "bm1", "bmn", "bugmenott", and "abcpoker".

@mods: next time you ban someones account because it's listed in bugmenot.com, do us a favor and check that it actually works, will ya!? Seems like someone likes me... You're gonna have to be more specific than that; are you referring to a block I did on the wiki? Because all of those were bot acco...

Of more general interest is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... _archivers. It doesn't explicitly note which archivers are open source, though (unfortunately).

I was ready to reply with "lolwut" or "cool story bro" or something, but decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. Don't ask me why, I must be feeling unusually charitable today. =D

Actually, pages that are just named after extensions are meant to be disambiguation pages for all formats known to use that extension, e.g. PAK . Generally speaking, a page dedicated to a single format should never be named with just the extension. I really didn't word my previous comment as well as...

No, but his sig makes him look like a spammer. I say nuke the thread, and nuke his account.

As far as I'm concerned, if you're not charging money for your work (asking for donations vis-a-vis XeNTaX is fine IMHO), and you're not doing it for crackers and the like, it's fine - but you also need to respect the devs' requests; if they ask that you refrain from or stop reverse-engineering a ga...

I like grouping it by game title and following the subpage structure for article names. ie: MyGame/Archive MyGame/Model MyGame/Sound MyGame/Image Of course a single game could have multiple archive formats, or multiple model formats, etc but that could be handled as well. This makes it easier to li...