Re: [wxlua-users] Unicode Problem and the Copyright symbol ((c))

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

I don't have time to read this now, but this was just posted on the
wx-users mailing list in response to this message "Using Chinese (not
i18n)".

http://lists.wxwidgets.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?8:msp:94195:hljgalnnllihfkjijnlh

Maybe the programs wxluafreeze, wxlua, etc need to have command line
switches to allow you to specify ASCII, UTF8, etc. I think the problem
with the copyright symbol is that the UTF8 converter gags on it, but
happily passes though 7-bit ASCII.  For most purposes the converter is
transparent, but it does the wrong thing for 8-bit ASCII.

Regards,
    John Labenski


On 1/22/07, John Labenski <jla...@gm...> wrote:
> On 1/22/07, Ryan Pusztai <rpu...@gm...> wrote:
> > When I wxluafreeze a script that has a Copyright symbol (c), the application
> > quits right away with no error or anything. I am using it in an about box
> > and I am just wondering if it has to do with Unicode at all. I am using the
> > prebuilt wxluafreeze from the 'bin' directory and I have built it myself as
> > well. I get the same result. Also, it works great when ran with "wxLua" and
> > not frozen. For now I am just changing the (c) to (c).
> >
> > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I have tried this in the minimal.cpp sample using MS VS2005 and (c)
> does work in the about dialog there. Why it doesn't work in wxLua is
> probably because of the wx2lua and lua2wx string conversion functions
> in modules/wxlua/include/wxlstate.h.
>
> This has been discussed before, but with no resolution. The problem is
> that people make suggestions for changes to make it work for them, but
> would break things for other people. I do not understand much about
> unicode or even UTF8 strings other than a cursory knowledge so I
> cannot help much. I presented a summary of the different suggestions
> on the mailing list, but nobody seemed to know definitely what was
> right.
>
> see "wx2lua & Unicode was Re: [wxlua-users] Problem in using Turkish
> in wxLua scripts"
>
> I think we have two competing needs, unicode for international
> languages and UTF8 for ??? Can the two be mixed? I dunno.
>
> Regards,
>     John Labenski
>