Re: [wxlua-users] How to make invalid UTF-8 data to appear in wxSTC in Unicode builds?

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I'd like to come back to this topic; maybe it's something I'm doing
> wrong and it's still possible to process those invalid UTF-8
> characters? Any ideas?
>
>
I honestly don't know. Did you try to call wxSTC::AddTextRaw(const char*)?
This function does not do any UTF8 conversions before passing the string to
Scintilla.

Regards,
    John




> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> >> Yes, note that From8BitData() is static and To8BitData() is not.
> >
> > Thank you for the prompt change! Unfortunately, it didn't have the
> > desired effect for me; maybe I misread wxwidgets documentation.
> >
> > Let's say I have three invalid UTF-8 characters: string.char(0x80,
> > 0x81, 0x82). If I assigned them to a variable u, it has proper length
> > (#u == 3). If I try to add them to wxSTC, nothing happens (the length
> > of the content doesn't change).
> >
> > If I use From8BitData(), then I get 6 bytes instead of 3:
> > #wx.wxString.From8BitData(string.char(0x80, 0x81, 0x82)) == 6, but
> > this looks like "fixed" UTF-8 code. When I add the result to wxSTC, I
> > do get 6 bytes of content there, but that's not what I expected: I
> > expected three characters displayed with 0x80, 0x81, and 0x82 as their
> > codes.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:53 PM, John Labenski <jla...@gm...>
> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Paul K <pau...@ya...> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Do we also get To8BitData(), as I may need it to save the data back to
> a
> >>> file?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes, note that From8BitData() is static and To8BitData() is not.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>     John
>
>
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