TLK language IDs and encodings

Aurora games use numerical language IDs to identify which language a TLK file holds. Unfortunately, those language IDs vary between games, and so does the encoding used for strings in those TLK files. There is no way to autodetect this information, so it has to be provided to tools handling those files, in one way or another.

For the tools tlk2xml and xml2tlk, you can specify this encoding either directly, or by giving the game the TLK is from. Please note that this does not work for Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, because its TLK files do not provide a language ID.

Neverwinter Nights, Neverwinter Nights 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Jade Empire

Language ID	Language	Encoding
0	English	CP-1252
1	French	CP-1252
2	German	CP-1252
3	Italian	CP-1252
4	Spanish	CP-1252
5	Polish	CP-1250
128	Korean	CP-949
129	Chinese (Traditional)	CP-950
130	Chinese (Simplified)	CP-936
131	Japanese	CP-932

The Witcher:

Language ID	Language	Encoding
0	"Debug"	UTF-8
3	English	UTF-8
5	Polish	UTF-8
10	German	UTF-8
11	French	UTF-8
12	Spanish	UTF-8
13	Italian	UTF-8
14	Russian	UTF-8
15	Czech	UTF-8
16	Hungarian	UTF-8
20	Korean	UTF-8
21	Chinese (Traditional)	UTF-8
22	Chinese (Simplified)	UTF-8

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood:

Language ID	Language	Encoding
-	English	CP-1252
-	French	CP-1252
-	German	CP-1252
-	Italian	CP-1252
-	Spanish	CP-1252
-	Japanese	UTF-8

Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II:

Language ID	Language	Encoding
0	English	UTF-16LE
1	French	UTF-16LE
2	Russian	UTF-16LE
3	Italian	UTF-16LE
4	German	UTF-16LE
5	Polish	UTF-16LE
6	Spanish	UTF-16LE
7	Czech	UTF-16LE
8	Hungarian	UTF-16LE
9	Korean	UTF-16LE
10	Japanese	UTF-16LE