warn people against using the normal editor that ships with windows that messes up all puzzles which rely on the spaces screen size
Thank you for your report. On investigating I have learned that the default applications in Windows (Notepad, Wordpad, PowerShell) apply inconsistent character encodings and word-wrap standards. As this is a universal weakness to the Windows environment, I expect that my target audience will already have alternative word editors to use, such as Notepad++. However, there are alternative solutions to the puzzles that do not rely on this.
In the case of words wrapping prematurely, for those who wish to use the defaults, there are four solutions.
-
Notepad’s word wrap can be disabled by clicking on Format -> Word Wrap.
-
Wordpad can use a monospaced font (enabled by default) and font sizing.
-
Powershell can read the content of non UTF-8 files using the
get-contentcommand. -
Manually line-break at the appropriate character count using the hints provided.
In the case of broken UTF-8 support, you will need to use Notepad. If that is not sufficient, you will need to install another editor.
If I release a future edition of the game, I will explore additional editors and encourage users to try them.
167 days ago(+1)
It doesn’t look like there’s anything I can do on my end at this point. Thank you for your reports regardless.