Re: [AL] Unicode

[Ole L. <ol...@ha...>]

> I need to use a latin keyboard and display latin chars But I
> couldn't understand the allegro docs about Unicode.  Also I couldn't
> find any example in the examples dir or in Allegro homepage and I
> couldn't find any tutorial about Unicode with allegro.
> 
> What can I do?

Well, you haven't told us what you actually want to do so it is bit
hard to give any specific advice... :-)

Using UTF-8 shouldn't be that difficult, though. You just need to
understand that any characters which aren't one of the 127 first ones
(all accented characters aren't), take up more than one byte in a char
array. So you should use Allegro's Unicode functions when looping
through them, for instance.

However, if you just need to output some strings that you've entered
in the source code, this isn't relevant at all. Allegro will take care
of everything then, you just need to enter the strings UTF-8 encoded
instead of Latin-1.

Since your editor probably won't let you do this directly, you either
a) have to find an editor which supports entering Unicode (I bet that
Emacs does, so you could just switch to Linux and start using that
:-), or b) convert your strings with the textconv utility which
resides in the tools subdirectory in your Allegro directory.

Simple as that, really.

-- 
Ole Laursen 
http://sunsite.dk/olau/
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I'm using the latest Outlook Express and your messages appear blank to
me with attached .TXT (containing your message(s)) and .DAT files.

-nco

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With Outlook it's an empity message with a dat and a txt file
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> 
> 
> Santiago Romero wrote:
> >
> >  Hi!
> >  Mr Matthew Smith has told me that my messages appear in the
> >  Allegro list as empty files with a .txt and .dat attached to
> >  it. It happens since I started to sign the messages using
> >  GnuPG, so I would like to see if you all are reading me or
> >  I'm doing something wrong...
> 
> Reading you loud and clear. Over.
> 
> In Netscape mailer at least.
> 
> However, you do have a .dat attached.
> 
> --
> 
> - Robert J Ohannessian
> 
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Hey all -
Does anyone know where I might find the source code that loads the keymaps =
from
datafiles?

Thanks,
Jared
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Santiago Romero wrote:
> 
>  Hi!
>  Mr Matthew Smith has told me that my messages appear in the
>  Allegro list as empty files with a .txt and .dat attached to
>  it. It happens since I started to sign the messages using
>  GnuPG, so I would like to see if you all are reading me or
>  I'm doing something wrong...
> 
>  maybe is Mr Smith's mail client...
> 
>  CU and sorry for the stupid message.

Your e-mail client, Mutt 1.2.5i, is formatting your message as an 
unusual multipart MIME content-type:

Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
	protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND"

The MIME pieces in the body of the message are stated as inline 
though, so they shouldn't show up as attachments.  My e-mail 
client interprets your messages the same way Outlook does (gah!) 
so I guess I'd better get off my lazy butt and fix it.

-Tom
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On my install of Win2k, as I've mentioned before, then set_gfx_mode()
call always fails AFTER the monitor resynchs to the new resolution
requested.  Tracing it into the Allegro source revealed it to be failing
on a call to acquire_primary_surface() or something like that.  I have
personally seen this behavior on two computers, which had the same
motherboard and sound card and the same version of Windows 2000
professional, but different graphics cards.  DirectX diagnostics reported
nothing wrong, but Unreal Tournmant ran slowly and refused to full-screen
itself.

My game (which uses Allegro for almost all IO) however, works on many
windows 2000 computers, albiert with more than the usual allotment of
bugs.  Among other things, it sometimes shows up as windowed when
trying to be full-screen, it sometimes draws black over large portions of
the screen for no apparent reason, buttons in the GUI sometimes fail
to unclick the first time you click on them, etc..