Loading different languages from a file

I want to let players choose what language to use in my game at the beggining of it, so I want to load a file with all the different translations: spanish, english, french, russian, etc, so the game can load the respective text corresponding to the chosen language.

I did a test loading from an excel file, and I don't know why the game does not load special characters like the "ñ" in spanish. I don't know how to test it in russian either.

So what's the best way to achieve this?, thanks a lot.

Hi FunEffect,

I'm currently trying to do the same thing for one of my games. I'm using XML files instead because it has UTF-8 encoding. So, I was wondering if your excel file is encoded in UTF-8. IMO UTF-8 should support spanish special characters such as "ñ". I'm dealing with french special characters (é, è, à; etc.).

Try UTF-8 encoding and let me know. On the other hand I have no idea how to deal with russian alphabet since it consists of completely different letters.

Thanks for the idea, I'm going to try that and let you know the results.

It worked, I had to use notepad++ to change the encoding. Thanks a lot.

Now, how can I writte something in russian and load it in-game?, just for testing.

Using notepad++ I copied this russian text on my xml file to test it: русский язык, I ran the game and it showed it without problems, I don't know how to write in russian, but I guess that's not a problem since the translator will give me the texts.

Thanks again and good luck with that.