Hi all, I don't see a Mono.Cairo forum, so hopefully this is the right place to post.
As I understand it .Net strings are UTF-16, and converting them to UTF-8 renders a byte array, and to get them back to strings they have to be converted back to UTF-16. If I'm wrong stop me here. So I've been using Mono.Cairo.Context.ShowText() which takes a string. On Linux everything is good, never had a problem. But running my assemblies on Windows with the Mono assemblies from the Windows Mono installer everything works - except that ShowText() has issues with accents and guillemets (and maybe other things). (Trying to output them prevents any further drawing operations from working on the context.) So I discover that the doco says "A drawing operator that generates the shape from a string of UTF-8 characters, rendered according to the current font_face, font_size (font_matrix), and font_options." Is this possible? It takes a .Net string, .Net strings are UTF-16, but it needs UTF-8? Can someone confirm that there is something wrong here, or tell me what I'm misunderstanding? Thanks in advance, Nev -- View this message in context: http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/Passing-UTF-8-to-a-method-that-takes-a-Net-string-not-possible-right-tp2993098p2993098.html Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
