Howto: Line break and markers in stringtable.xml ?

[zwobot]

How do you insert line breaks in the stringtable.xml? I tried to mask a new line with \n, <br> and <br/> tags but none of it works. The <br> tags even break the briefing completely when the strings are used for the briefing.

Also how can I use markers in a stringtable.xml powered multilanguage briefing? Having the marker tags directly in the stringtable.xml breaks the parsing just like the <br> tags above. Do you have to format the strings for the briefing with the format command?

[Planck]

As far as I can see in a plain text file it just looks like so ...

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<Project name="Core"><Package name="UI"><Key ID="str_xbox_wizard_edit"><German>Missionseinstellungen
 ändern</German><English>Edit Mission Settings</English><Italian>Modifica impostazioni missione</Italian>
<Spanish>Editar configuración de la misión</Spanish><French>Modifier paramètres mission</French>
<Czech>Upravit nastavení mise</Czech><Russian>Сменить настройки задания</Russian><Polish>Edytuj
 ustawienia misji</Polish><Hungarian>Küldetés beállításainak átkonfigurálása</Hungarian></Key>


However it displays in my browser as so ...

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-<Project name="Core">
 -<Package name="UI">
  -<Key ID="str_xbox_wizard_edit">
    <German>Missionseinstellungen ändern</German>
    <English>Edit Mission Settings</English>
    <Italian>Modifica impostazioni missione</Italian>
    <Spanish>Editar configuración de la misión</Spanish>
    <French>Modifier paramètres mission</French>
    <Czech>Upravit nastavení mise</Czech>
    <Russian>Сменить настройки задания</Russian>
    <Polish>Edytuj ustawienia misji</Polish>
    <Hungarian>Küldetés beállításainak átkonfigurálása</Hungarian>
   </Key>


[Deadfast]

You can't have < or > chars inside the string. You have to write them as &lt; for < and &gt; for >.

For that linebreak you were asking for it'd be:

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Line1<br/>Line2

[zwobot]

Thanks Deadfast, that worked for the line breaks. However my markers still aren't linked in the Briefing. E. g.:

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<marker name='pl_viper'/>PL Viper</marker/>
for
<marker name='pl_viper'/>PL Viper</marker/>Shows the text PL Viper in the briefing but not the link. Are there more characters I need to mask in order for that to work, the = and ' maybe?

Also I masked Umlaute (ü, ä, Ü, Ä ...) with &uuml; &auml; etc. but they are displayed as question marks in the briefing. Is this caused by the UTF-8 encoding I use in the xml? Would it help to use another encoding (Unicode for example)?

[Deadfast]

Umlauts (and other such language symbols) should work just fine with the correct encoding. You don't need to mask them or anything.

[zwobot]

That's strange because they don't work for me. They aren't displayed at all. Guess I'll workaround that by using ue ae etc. instead of ü and ä...