ComboBox and utf8

2013-04-28 Thread Jiří Pavlovský
Hello, I have a problem with ComboBox and utf8 data. For example string Derviş is displayed like Dervi + 2 weird characters. If I just create a test case, paste the mentioned string into the code and 'use utf8' then it works. But these strings are coming from db and DBD::Pg is set to convert

RE: ComboBox and utf8

2013-04-28 Thread steveco.1959
Oops, forgot to copy list: Well from my own experience decoding and display are not always consistent. You MUST use a decode function before you display any utf8, whether it displays right or not, otherwise will have problems on other platforms. Eg when I ported from Linux to Windows, some utf8

Re: ComboBox and utf8

2013-04-28 Thread Mark Dootson
Hi, Where a wxWidgets method expects a wxString, the translation from the Perl SV to a wxString uses the same code throughout the entire library. As part of the translation, wxPerl checks if the SV you pass has the utf8 flag set. The problem just might be that DBD::Pg is not returning what

WxPerl Contribs

2013-04-28 Thread herbert breunung
Dear Comrads, during my efforts writing the WxPerlbook (http://bitbucket.org/lichtkind/wxperlbook/src) i collected some of the more useful contribs on the wiki page http://www.wxperl.nl/WxPerlContribs maybe some cheerful minds could add some small evaluations of these modules and help me in this