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

[Paul K <pau...@ya...>]

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?

Paul.

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