1XML2TLK(1) BSD General Commands Manual XML2TLK(1)
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4 xml2tlk — XML to BioWare TLK converter
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7 xml2tlk [options] [input_file] output_file
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10 xml2tlk converts XML files created by the tlk2xml(1) tool back into the
11 BioWare TLK format. For a more in-depth description of TLK files, please
12 see the man page for the tlk2xml(1) tool. Also note that currently, only
13 the non-GFF versions, V3.0 and V4.0, can be created by xml2tlk.
14 The format of the input XML is pretty simple and straight-forward.
16 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
18 <tlk language="0">
19 <string id="1">Continue</string>
20 <string id="2" sound="hello">Well hello there!</string>
21 <string id="3" sound="bye" soundlength="0.5">Bye!</string>
22 <string id="4" soundid="23">Who are you?</string>
23 </tlk>
24 The root element is “tlk”, and it can have an optional language property.
26 That language ID can also be given on the command line, and it then over‐
27 rides the one in the input XML. When creating a, versions V3.0 and V4.0
28 need a language ID, while versions V0.2 and V0.5 ignore the language ID.
29 Each child tag of the root element has to be a “string” element, and each
31 “string” element requires an “id” property. The ID is the string refer‐
32 ence (StrRef) for the text line, and the contents of the “string” element
33 is the text itself. The whole file has to be UTF-8 encoded.
34 Version V3.0 allows the following extra properties on a “string”: “sound”
36 (a resource reference of a voice-over for this line, ≤ 16 characters),
37 “soundlength” (a floating point number denoting the length of the sound
38 file in seconds), “volumevariance” (unused by the games) and
39 “pitchvariance” (unused by the games).
40 Version V4.0 allows the extra property “soundid” on a “string”, which is
42 a numerical references to a voice-over line.
43 Versions V0.2 and V0.5 do not allow any extra properties.
45 Because TLK files contain localized string data, it is important to know
47 the encoding of those strings. Unfortunately, the TLK files do not con‐
48 tain information about the encoding. Version 3.0 and 4.0 contain a lan‐
49 guage identifier, but the meaning of that varies between games. V0.2 and
50 V0.5 even lack those completely. However, due to the Huffman-nature of
51 V0.5 strings, the encoding there is fixed to little-endian UTF-16, and
52 strings in V0.2 files are also usually in little-endian UTF-16 (with the
53 exceptions of files found in the Nintendo DS game Sonic Chronicles: The
54 Dark Brotherhood). To manually select the encoding, this tool provides a
55 wide range command line options for various encodings.
56 Alternatively, the game this TLK is from can be specified and xml2tlk
58 will write the strings in an appropriate encoding for that game and the
59 language ID. Please note that this does not work for the game Sonic
60 Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, since its TLK files do not provide a
61 language ID.
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64 -h
65 --help
66 Show a help text and exit.
67 --version
68 Show version information and exit.
69 -3
70 --version30
71 Write a V3.0 TLK file.
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73 --version40
74 Write a V4.0 TLK file.
75 -l id
76 --language id
77 Override the TLK language ID.
78 --cp1250
79 Write strings as Windows CP-1250.
80 Eastern European, Latin alphabet.
82 --cp1251
83 Write strings as Windows CP-1251.
84 Eastern European, Cyrillic alphabet.
86 --cp1252
87 Write strings as Windows CP-1252.
88 Western European, Latin alphabet.
90 --cp932
91 Write strings as Windows CP-932.
92 Japanese, extended Shift-JIS.
94 --cp936
95 Write strings as Windows CP-936.
96 Simplified Chinese, extended GB2312 with GBK codepoints.
98 --cp949
99 Write strings as Windows CP-949.
100 Korean, similar to EUC-KR.
102 --cp950
103 Write strings as Windows CP-950.
104 Traditional Chinese, similar to Big5.
106 --utf8
107 Write strings as UTF-8.
108 --utf16le
109 Write strings as little-endian UTF-16.
110 --utf16be
111 Write strings as big-endian UTF-16.
112 --nwn
113 Write strings in an encoding appropriate for Neverwinter Nights.
114 --nwn2
115 Write strings in an encoding appropriate for Neverwinter Nights 2.
116 --kotor
117 Write strings in an encoding appropriate for Knights of the Old
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119 --kotor2
120 Write strings in an encoding appropriate for Knights of the Old
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122 --jade
123 Write strings in an encoding appropriate for Jade Empire.
124 --witcher
125 Write strings in an encoding appropriate for The Witcher.
126 --dragonage
127 Write strings in an encoding appropriate for Dragon Age: Origins.
128 --dragonage2
129 Write strings in an encoding appropriate for Dragon Age II.
130 input_file
131 The XML file to convert. If no input file is specified, the XML
132 data is read from stdin. The encoding of the XML stream must
133 always be UTF-8.
134 output_file
135 The TLK file will be written there.
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138 Convert file1.xml into a V3.0 CP-1252 TLK file:
139 $ xml2tlk --version30 --cp1252 file1.xml file2.tlk
141 Convert file1.xml into a V4.0 UTF-8 TLK file and override the language
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144 $ xml2tlk --version40 --utf8 --language 1 file1.xml file2.tlk
146 Convert file1.xml into a V3.0 TLK file from Neverwinter Nights:
148 $ xml2tlk --version30 --nwn file1.xml file2.tlk
150 Convert the UTF-8 TLK file1.tlk into an XML file on stdout with
152 tlk2xml(1), modify it using sed(1) and write the result back into a TLK:
153 $ tlk2xml --utf8 file1.tlk | sed -e 's/gold/candy/g' | xml2tlk \
155 --utf8 --version30 file2.tlk
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158 tlk2xml(1)
159 More information about the xoreos project can be found on its website:
161 https://xoreos.org/.
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164 This program is part of the xoreos-tools package, which in turn is part
165 of the xoreos project, and was written by the xoreos team. Please see
166 the AUTHORS file for details.
167BSD July 23, 2015 BSD