Prowler, maybe you could have a look at
this discussion on the
BGEE forum. You can safely ignore all the part regarding what is required to make mods compatible with both
BGEE and
BG II.
BGEE requires encoding the texts in UTF8, not with the local Windows code page as the old games.
If you use the texts with the Windows code page encoding, you get in game what Horred said: the text is not displayed beyond the first special character. I put some screen captures in the discussion to show this issue, and that, using UTF8,
BGEE was properly displaying the texts.
This UTF8 solution proved sufficient to allow proper installation of BPSeries for
BGEE so that the texts are displayed properly. In French at least. I converted your translation to UTF8 and installed BP Series in russian. And
BGEE doesn't display anything that is using cyrillic when I check the text file in notepad++.
So our question is: does it fail to display the cyrillic because my system is from Western Europe, or does it fail as well with a russian setup? So this indeed requires something having access to
BGEE.
Horred, regarding the all-in-one installer, having both UTF8 and the other type of files is indeed an option. However I couldn't figure out a way to handle this without doubling all the language directories since the names must remain the same. And I have no clue how to tell
WeiDU to use one language directory or the other out of the LANGUAGE parts in the tp2. So that meant having a choice of language of French (BGII) and French (
BGEE) when installing. Not good.
I gave up and tried the alternative I described.