Jade is a patch that let your EverQuest II supports displaying CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters.
Because EverQuest II lacks CJK character font, without doing special settings. EQ2 will convert these East Asian Languages into some weird boxes. Jade can't let you understanding foreign languages, but personally, I'll rather to read the origin characters, but not some weird boxes.
Actually, Using this UI isn't the only way to make your EQ2 support CJK characters. As an alternate solution, you can add "cl_language Japanese" to your EQ2.ini, to set the program into Japanese Localized Mode. But this is a defective solution. For example, when Japanese Localized Mode is enabled, combat log will become weird, like "Char's damage" will change into "CharのDamage", it would be a pain if you are using ACT. Also, string %p will works weird, like "Its" will change into "それの" (because some Japanese translation is pre-loaded).
* NOTE: As Japanese Server already did ENOUGH capability work, it's useless in Japanese Server. This patch is made for English/French/German/Russian Servers.*
For Installation Instructions, check the readme file that included in the zip package.
For more information including update history, development status report, bug report, etc., you can also turn your browser to:
http://chrislau.eq2interface.com
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Update history:
1.3b -> 1.4 (Aug 29, 2008)
- Capable fix for Windows Vista Users, please check the readme file for the special installation instructions for Windows Vista users.
- Mailbox windows updated.
- Glyph expanded. (Including a bunch of symbol glyphs)
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