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Re: UTF8 chars problems from from Linux to Windows [message #25819 is a reply to message #25766]

Sat, 13 March 2010 22:53

mdelfede
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Registered: September 2007

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Well, I discovered that in no way this 'gamma' letter can be passed to windows... Maybe it doesn't exist on its charsets.
Replacing it with another 'simil-gamma' found on windows did the trick.

Btw, the other 'big' problem in my app was GetSystemLNG(), which returns not only the language but also the active charmap :

lang = GetSystemLNG();
String langStr = LNGAsText(lang);

lang is 18141492 and langStr is "IT-IT windows-1252" in my machine.
Not sure about but, doing

SetLanguage(lang);

seems to activate both italian language AND 1252 codepage, making all UTF8 chars in app to disappear and/or be scrambled.
The solution was :

lang = GetSystemLNG();
String langStr = LNGAsText(lang).Left(5);
lang = LNGFromText(langStr);
SetLanguage(lang);

stripping so the codepage from language string and reconverting to integer, which in my machine gives lang=315700 and langStr="IT-IT" and allows UTF8 chars to behave as usual.
Note that this problem arose just on windows; on Linux it was all ok.

Ciao

Max

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