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AppleBlossom3
Rising Adventurer
2 years ago

Re: Weird Game Version txt file

I just updated my game to 1.105.345.1020 last night and noticed this weird GameVersion.txt also. 

I did noticed that this opened with UTF-16 LE instead of UTF-8 which is how other .txt files on my computer open.  Thanks to @jpkarlsen for posting the explanation of ANSI encoding.  After reading that I opened it with ANSI by going to File --> Open (or Ctrl + O) and selecting ANSI as the encoding.  And I was able to see the correct numbers.

I really hope they change this back because it's kind of annoying to be opening files this way instead of double clicking them.  And I don't want to download Notepad++ or anything else on my computer if I don't have to.

12 Replies

  • kreaturen's avatar
    kreaturen
    New Traveler
    2 years ago

    @AppleBlossom3Huh, how bizarre... But at least everything is in order. I suppose Microsoft ought to get the blame for this one, and not EA (for a change 🤣)

  • EeveeTinn's avatar
    EeveeTinn
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    @AppleBlossom3omg you are so right, I knew the encoding looked weird but could not pin point it to which one was there before. I could totally understand what jp said about it. I had no idea if i could open it with a different encoding - didn't think about opening it this way you showed, but chaning it within the file, which I could not figure out how to do. I did now open it this way, just not ANSI but UTF-8, which is for me a default when I open it, and it shows the number. How bizzare. I have no idea why did the encoding change all of a sudden.

  • EeveeTinn's avatar
    EeveeTinn
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    @AppleBlossom3 exactly, I am sure it was UTF-8 on all previous txt files for me, and now it is the one you showed as well UTF-16 LE, which honestly I have never even knew about (I am ofc not into coding, encoding or any such type of computer work hahah). Even when I have the game version txt open, and I open another tab, it opens it in UTF-8 😅game version file is the black sheep
  • LuvMySimz's avatar
    LuvMySimz
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    I have the same issue since the hot fix patch. I'm on Win 11 64bit. Thought it was a bug, repared game, no change.

    All my text file use UTF-8, just this one uses UTF-16 LE. I opened the file and clicked to open with UTF-8. After that I could see the numbers. I then saved the file. On reopen to check it now shows the numbers.

  • AppleBlossom3's avatar
    AppleBlossom3
    Rising Adventurer
    2 years ago

    Now we have to wait until the next update to see if the game will save it in UTF-8 or UTF-16 LE again.

  • EeveeTinn's avatar
    EeveeTinn
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago

    @AppleBlossom3it didn't work for a bit in Notepad ++ for some reason, but I tried again and it works with it. But unfortunately, with regular Notepad the usual "save as.." or "open (ansi, utf etc)" doesn't work still.

  • EeveeTinn's avatar
    EeveeTinn
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago
    @ashdelcorno hey, I did say I used it above, and it worked 🙂 it didn't work for a day. But we had other method to open the game file as UTF-8 or ANSI in regular Notepad, but for some reason that doesn't work for me anymore, and I had to reinstall Notepad++ again.

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