Emulation Homebrew ROM Hack Translation [Yo-Kai Watch Busters 2] How can I change the fonts to a Western keyboard layout?

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I’ve been working on the German patch for Yo-Kai Watch Busters 2 for about five days now, translating dialogues, Yo-kai names, system texts, and more. But I keep running into the same problem with Kuriimuu1: European glyphs like ä, ö, ü, or ß are immediately replaced by a, o, u, or s as soon as I save and reopen the file. This makes some dialogues/names strange or even nonsensical.

I also tried modifying the font files, since they aren’t really suited for German (for example the “¥” symbol), but that resulted in an error. After a while I asked an AI (Copilot) how to fix this, and Copilot told me that it can only be solved through ASM modding / reverse engineering.

I’m not very experienced with reverse engineering, so maybe someone here knows another way to avoid this fallback behavior.
 

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European glyphs like ä, ö, ü, or ß are immediately replaced by a, o, u, or s as soon as I save and reopen the file
Is this accent stripping done by the game itself or by Kuriimu? (If it's Kuriimu, no need for reverse engineering, you'd just need to edit its C# code.) Otherwise, yes, you'll need to find the in-game function that strips the accents before printing the text, and patch that.
 
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Is this accent stripping done by the game itself or by Kuriimu? (If it's Kuriimu, no need for reverse engineering, you'd just need to edit its C# code.) Otherwise, yes, you'll need to find the in-game function that strips the accents before printing the text, and patch that.
It is by Kurrimuu, where do I edit it's C# code?
 
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It is by Kurrimuu, where do I edit it's C# code?
Just follow the instructions to build the software on your computer first (read the README.md): https://github.com/FanTranslatorsInternational/Kuriimu2
Clone the project with git, download Visual Studio, .NET, etc.

After that, you just need to search the source code for the part where the text editor saves, and see where the accent stripping happens. You can try using Copilot if you don't know much about coding (idk if it will work).

Alternatively, you can also open an issue on GitHub mentioning your problem, and they will fix it in future versions of Kuriimu.
 
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