Re: [wxlua-users] wxString::ToAscii

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

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Victor Bombi <so...@te...> wrote:

>
>
> >What do you plan to do with this wxString? You won't be able to display it
> >in the GUI since the high ASCII chars usually just show up as boxes not as
> >the DOS smiley faces and whatnot. I recommend sanitizing the string for
> >display by replacing the extended ascii and controls chars with '?' for
> >example.
>
> Just would like to show áéíóú
>
>

Ahh, ok. Below is a list of the UTF8 chars to use.
http://www.utf8-chartable.de/

I ran this in wxLuaEdit and both wxMessageBoxes showed the char à I copied
and pasted from the site above.

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lua_str="à"
print (string.len(lua_str))
wx.wxMessageBox(lua_str)
wx_str = wx.wxString(lua_str)
print (wx_str:Len())
wx.wxMessageBox(wx_str)
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output:

Running lua script 'untitled.lua*' : Thu Mar  5 13:02:55 2015
2  -- note 2 byte utf8 char
1  -- wx knows that this is just a single two-byte utf8 char

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Does this not work for you?

Regards,
    John