WString and UTF-8 encoding
Added by Radu Marin almost 11 years ago
Hi!
I'm trying to render an UTF-8 encoded text(Romanian characters) using WPdfRenderer with no succes this far. My project uses Multi-Byte Character Set. I've explored a number of possibilities, but nothing worked out.
This is a sample of the text i read from a file "ăîâșț" and the result after converting to Wt::WString "ăîâșț".
I've tried this:
CStringW strW = L"ăîâșț";
std::wstring stdwstr(strW);
Wt::WString wstr(stdwstr);
and this
CStringW strW = L"ăîâșț";
std::wstring stdwstr(strW);
const wchar_t* szStr = stdwstr.c_str();
Wt::WString wstr(szStr)
and setting WString default encoding Wt::WString::setDefaultEncoding(Wt::UTF8);
and also setting the locale setlocale(LC_ALL, "ro_RO.UTF-8"); or setlocale(LC_ALL, "ro_RO.UTF-8");
Does anyone have another suggestion?
Thanks in advance!
Replies (5)
RE: WString and UTF-8 encoding - Added by Radu Marin almost 11 years ago
I started another project, this time using UNICODE char set. The problem persists. I should also add that i use Visual Studio.
RE: WString and UTF-8 encoding - Added by Alan Finley almost 11 years ago
Did you try this:
Wt::WString wstr = Wt::WString::fromUTF8("ăîâșț");
RE: WString and UTF-8 encoding - Added by Radu Marin almost 11 years ago
I've tried Wt::WString wstr = Wt::WString::fromUTF8("ăîâșț"); on a test unicode project, but half of the chars are interpreted as '?'.
Another thing i tried was changing locale from Windows to Romanian. The resulted WString is slightly different, but far from "ăîâșț".
RE: WString and UTF-8 encoding - Added by Alan Finley almost 11 years ago
In my test project I don't set any special encondings and this one works fine:
Wt::WString wstr = Wt::WString::fromUTF8("ăîâșț");
app->root()->addWidget(new Wt::WText(wstr));
RE: WString and UTF-8 encoding - Added by Wim Dumon almost 11 years ago
On Windows, you'll have more success with constructing from wide characters like this:
WString wstr(L"ăîâșț");
But then again, your program may not work if you run it on other language windows versions. I've said it a number of times before in my posts: avoid to write unicode in C source code, it is not portable. Put them in a message resource bundle and use tr() instead.
Best regards,
Wim.