The main point of the previous strings/ subdirectory was to bundle all
hardcoded strings for translators. And sure, *technically*, gaiji
strings are *both* strings *and* something you might want to translate.
But mainly, they're sprites with an attached enum, and their own
directory. Changes to the enum quickly tend to involve changes to the
strings that use these values, so it makes sense to keep both in the
same directory.
Especially since 82% of the previous strings/ directories consisted of
such gaiji strings.
That leaves the strings/ directory rather empty and nondescript though.
Recently though, I've been wanting to generally move all Shift-JIS text
to this directory. While that wouldn't *solve* the typical "text editor
accidentally a file upon save, due to wrongly detected encoding" issue,
it's at least a mitigation: If all Shift-JIS strings are in files that
contain nothing *but* Shift-JIS strings, a wrongly detected encoding
becomes immediately noticeable.
For that job, strings/ can have a more descriptive name though. Hence,
shiftjis/.
Part of P0141, funded by [Anonymous] and rosenrose.
So it's *_put(), inherited from master.lib, for everything just writing
to text RAM, and *_render() for everything more involved? But what
about master.lib's own graphics RAM functions like super_put()? Need to
fix that inconsistency some day.
Once again no decompilation, because…
Part of P0033, funded by zorg.
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