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-rw-r--r--tools/grit/grit/node/message.py6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/grit/grit/node/message.py b/tools/grit/grit/node/message.py
index 66afa64..5ae1162 100644
--- a/tools/grit/grit/node/message.py
+++ b/tools/grit/grit/node/message.py
@@ -183,8 +183,10 @@ class MessageNode(base.ContentNode):
id = id_map[self.GetTextualIds()[0]]
message = self.ws_at_start + self.Translate(lang) + self.ws_at_end
- # |message| is a python unicode string, so convert to a utf8 byte stream.
- return id, message.encode('utf8')
+ # |message| is a python unicode string, so convert to a utf16 byte stream
+ # because that's the format of datapacks. We skip the first 2 bytes
+ # because it is the BOM.
+ return id, message.encode('utf16')[2:]
# static method
def Construct(parent, message, name, desc='', meaning='', translateable=True):