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

[Ryan P. <rpu...@gm...>]

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.
>
>
Thanks for the response, I will read the posts and see if I can offer any
insight. I am not an expert either, I just know the silent fail really is
bad and spent quite a bit of time looking for the error. Maybe just that can
be improved?
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Regards,
Ryan
RJP Computing