Hello, sorry about that reply, pressed wrong button. Back to encodings. I tried font from windows and from linux and also sending the characters from windows and linux. all 4 possibilities. It was the same all the time.
Now I have tested it again, not change. UTF8 from linux of course works. Thanks for helping On 8/31/06, Marcel Siegert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 31 August 2006 21:26, you wrote: > > I'm using normal character. but when I send utf, it works ok. > > > > I have a cgi, which reads the incomming data and sends them to the > > screen, using just std::string. I have not tested it before, but now > > upon your idea, I did: > > > > when I setup iso encoding (is 88591?) in browser and send some special > > character, they are displayed bad via dfb and in text log (console > > output), everything is OK > > > > when I setup utf-8 in browser, the text message is going in 2bytes per > > character, and it is displayed fine, but there is mess in text output. > > > > How could I fix that? I think, swedish characters are in standard iso > > wester europe encoding, so no necessity to use utf8 for me.... > > > > > > Thanks > > hi, > at first please keep the list cc'ed. not me, but all others are maybe > interested in a working solution. > > the main problem in my point of view is, that you have a windows codepage > mapping in the ttf font. > linux has iso codepage mapping or utf-8. you may have to write a kind of a > conversion routine just > before assigning the values to the std::string > > best regards > marcel > > > > > > On 8/31/06, Marcel Siegert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:23, Bu Bacoo wrote: > > > > Hello, please could anyone help me with some hint? > > > hi, > > > > > > > > I try to output special Swedish characters (öåä) with DFB++'s > > > > IDirectFBSurface::DrawString. Instead of seeing them, I can just see > > > > small rectangles. > > > > > > > > They are in std::string buffer, output to std::cout works fine with > > > > them. > > > how is your string encoded? normal chars? or do you use utf-8? > > > this is an important thing. > > > > > > > I'm using arial.ttf from swedish windows xp, tried also other fonts, > > > > still the same. > > > > > > > > Please help > > > > > > > > I have not tested in directfb directly or with ++DFB, because it could > > > > be quite big issue to change the whole application, but if someone > > > > knows, it is working in there, I could get and modify the text > > > > formatting :-( > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Bu > > > > > > regards > > > marcel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
