Miscellaneous: ERROR: String not found. (8053) - crafting messge bug

[Nargule]

Originally Posted by DoucLangur [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

FIX for this Error Message:

1. Open the file eqstr_us.txt with a text editor
2. Insert the line for 8053 at the proper position.
   

   8034 Usable
   8053 You have created something new.
   8500 Request Adventure

3. Save the file
4. Restart your EQ client

Originally Posted by Benanov [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The 8053 String Not Found message is only for the success message, and doesn't affect combine chances. It is the success message. I think it used to be "You have combined these items to make something new."...

Kudos to you two for actual posting a solution rather than re-reporting a bug 15,000 times.

Originally Posted by Benanov [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just edit eqstr_us.txt with a non-insane text editor (Notepad does not count as non-insane; Notepad++ is fine.)

Oh, boy. I wish I paid attention to this warning. I opened with Notepad and hosed my client - ended up breaking every string in the game.

I then downloaded Visual Studio Code and discovered the file got converted from UTF-8 to UTF-8 with BOM. I have no idea what BOM is, but converting it back to standard UTF-8 encoding fixed the issue and now I have my strings back, including the crafting success string!