Re: [Foxgui-users]How to use Umlauts

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> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 13:15, Robert W. Kuhn wrote:
> > Jeroen van der Zijp:
> >
> > >> If I want to use umlauts in the text of a FXMessageBox (or somethi=
ng like
> > >> that) I do not see the =C3=B6=C3=A4=C3=BC's but a white box.
> > >>
> > >> Do I have to use a macro (_T"=C3=A4=C3=A4"); ? Or what do i have t=
o do?
> > >>
> > >> Tschau - Robert
> > >>
> > >
> > > Try:
> > >
> > >
> > >  fromAscii("....\uXXXX...")
> > >
> > > which you can use to embed any unicode character in regular string =
[it interprets
> > > the \uXXXX and replaces it with the utf-8 character].
> >
> > I have to do it in such a difficult way? I believe it is up to the co=
ntrol
> > to parse my ascii-char and replace all char>127 with the utf-unicode
> > character.
>
> The control actually likes you to feed it utf-8 encoded unicode.  Howev=
er, the
> new FXString constructors can also accept 16- and 32-bit wide character=
s, so
> if you want to input as a wide-character string, you can do this, too.
>
> Yes, this means you can use your favorite T() macro to embed constant w=
ide-character
> strings into your code, and as long as you're inside the "Basic Multila=
ngual Plane"
> then the fact that Unix wide-characters are wider than Windows wide-cha=
racters shouldn't
> be an issue at all.
>
> A third possibility is to make use of FXString's compose() API which ca=
n perform
> the standard "combining character" tricks to compose a" into =C3=A4.
>
> > I believe this is not a good solution. And I do not have always a con=
st
> > char*. Sometimes I have a FXString with umlauts. Same problems.
>
> Well, tell me what you'd like to see; we may be able to provide additio=
nal
> facilities beyond the ones we have now.
>
>   - Jeroen



There is very simple solution - just save all source files in UTF-8 and f=
orget
about the problem. Or use _T() macro or any else to call a function which=
 converts
text in your codepage to UTF-8. That way you can also easy make your app =
multilingual.

Regards

Micha=C5=82