DBC Strings BitMask

[Monkeyx3]

I have a simple question. In a 3.3.5a 12340 DBC a string is present in difference columns for localization. At the end there is always a bitmask. What stands this bitmask for? Does it contains information about the supported locales?

thanks in advance

[stoneharry]

These are the only text flags I could find:

https://github.com/stoneharry/Spell-...s/TextFlags.cs

namespace SpellEditor.Sources.Constants
{
    enum TextFlags : uint
    {
        EMPTY       = 0xFF01FC,
        NOT_EMPTY   = 0xFF01FE,
        // Schlumpf: found a localization flag not being one of the two you know but 0xFF01CC,
        // making bit 2 the "is present" bit and adding bits 5 and 6 to the set of unknown ones.
        UNKNOWN_1   = 0xFF01CC,
        UNKNOWN_2   = 0xFF01EE
    }
}

It appears the field is not even read by the client. Each of the other localisation columns is a different language, with only the first ~8 used by retail. As of Cataclysm they stopped localising in this manner and just distributed the files each client needs.