Several months ago, our translation group, the d'Oghmatiques, and Ixyon completed translations of IEP Banters and of the various friendship mods and submitted our work to Kaeloree. Around that time he was very busy updating lots of BGII mods to BG2EE.
A few months passed. In early march, I spent some time integrating and testing the translations of these mods, adding to all these mods the necessary adjustment of special characters in the texts for proper installation on BG2EE. I tested these adjustements on both BGII and BG2EE. I submitted this work to Kaeloree more than a month ago by sending him a PM. I tried again to contact him again through the BGEE forum a few weeks later. It seems he didn't show up for a long while on both these sites, according to his profile statistics. I hope Kealoree is fine and is just enjoying life after spending probably a lot of time working for Beamdog for the BG2EE launch.
I decided to post these modified versions of the mods here while we wait for Kaeloree to come back. They introduce nothing new to these mods, save for a French translation for IEP Banters, Imoen Friendship, Sarevok Friendship and Yoshimo Friendship.
The BG2EE compatibility has been extended to languages other than English. Until now, special characters of other languages would crash the game as they were not in the encoding expected by BG2EE.
I installed all of them on BG II and on BG2EE, in French. I tried them in game on BGII and BG2EE. Using old save games from BG II, I managed to get several discussions from IEP banters, Mazzy friendship and Imoen friendship. My saves didn't allow to check the other friendships but the installation was made without error or warning.
The good thing about UTF8 is it is easy to display it. For instance, without being a specialist, it's obvious that the russian file is composed of cyrillic characters once in UTF8. Similarly, it's not too difficult to notice the presence of polish specific characters after conversion. Therefore I assume this should work properly in game, as it does with French.
I identified these versions with a suffix _Isaya in the mod version, so that it appears in WeiDU.log.
Please report installation issues in this topic.
I'm afraid I can't provide any support relative to the mods themselves.
iepbantersV4.2_fr_bg2ee.zip 1.18MB
82183 downloads
imoenfriendshipV2.1_fr_bg2ee.zip 937.5K 44932 downloads
mazzyfriendshipV2.2_bg2ee.zip 952.3K 59827 downloads
sarevokfriendshipV1_fr_bg2ee.zip 928.06K 63122 downloads
viconiafriendshipV3.3_bg2ee.zip 1016.86K 74460 downloads
yoshimofriendshipV2.2_fr_bg2ee.zip 963.28K 42794 downloads
Edited by Isaya, 20 April 2014 - 02:43 AM.