but the question is why does it work in the first place? and also in the debugger i can see that c_str returns the characters with umlauts :/ ( even on the not working label )
Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen schrieb: > std::string::c_str() returns exactly what it says, a 8-bit ascii (UTF-8) > string, which of course doesn't have any unicode support, because it's > acsii. Get a wide character string pointer and use that one instead with a > function that supports it. > > - Sortie. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Heimo Stieg" <[email protected]> > To: "hlcoders" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 1:27 PM > Subject: [hlcoders] GoldSrc vgui::Label unicode problem > > > >> Hi, >> I want to add unicode to the normal ingame chat. On my custom input >> label ( vgui::Label ) the characters are looking fine and everything is >> working. >> On the other hand i have also some vgui::Labels to display the chat, but >> on these labels unicode characters like german umlauts will screw up. >> Sometimes the labels won't draw any character after the unicode one( the >> unicode character will be drawn ), or the labels writing the text over >> the unicode characters( like these characters would have the width of 0 ). >> I'm storing everything in std::string. I change also only this variable >> and on label->SetText im just using std::string::c_str(). >> The error isn't somewhere in the network because i've also tryed to copy >> the text directly from the input label to the chat label on the same >> client. Result is the same :/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
