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a number of commits since sept 22 are UTF-8 related descriptions like "* shoes/native/windows.c: more UTF-8 fixes to ListBox, EditBox.text= and EditLine.text=." sounds like vivaldi for your problem, i think On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Gissur Jonsson van Gilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'm new to this list, rather new to Ruby, and only a couple of weeks into > my dancing with Shoes... > > So far, it's been a pleasure. We are using Shoes for an > ActiveResource-client to a Rails backend, which more or less works, after a > rough start with Gem dependencies. > > But - somehow - UTF8 is not handled with enough care in the EditBox- and > ListBox-elements.Examples: > > A): I'm feeding the ListBox with a list of (danish) daycare institutions. > They are fetched by Institution, an ActiveResource class, and delivered in > UTF8 - i've tested the output in the console, and it works. > > B): But when they are rendered inside ListBox or EditBox - they are all > scrambled. > > Example institutions could be 'Nattergalen Brøderup, Tappernøje' and > 'Manøhytten, Næstved', which are shown nicely in the info and rendered > correctly as "Nattergalen Bræderup, Tappernøje' and 'Manøhytten, Næstved' in > the para, but not so in the ListBox (and the EditBox). > > Could you please help me with getting UTF8 to behave inside those elements? > Thanks in advance! > > Kind regards, Gissur > > NB - > Here is a working extract of the code - you would still need a Rails server > to get ActiveResources working so I've mocked the code a bit, and commented > ARest-parts out: > > Shoes.setup do > gem 'activeresource' > gem 'activesupport' > end > > require 'rubygems' > require 'yaml' > require 'active_resource' > require 'active_support' > > #class Institution < ActiveResource::Base > # self.site = 'http://localhost:3000/' > #end > > Shoes.app do > insts_array = ["nothing chosen"] > arest_array = ['Nattergalen Brøderup, Tappernøje','Manøhytten, > Næstved'] > # works with ActiveResource > # Institution.find(:all).each do |item| > # info "Institution (in utf8?): #{item.name}" > # insts_array << item.name > # end > > arest_array.each do |item| > info "Institution (in utf8?): #{item}" > insts_array << item > end > > flow :align => "left" do > para "Choose" > list_box :items => insts_array,:width => 240, :margin_left => 10, > :choose => "nothing chosen" do |list| > @choice.text = list.text > end > @choice = para "Nothing chosen", :margin_left => 10 > end > > button "OK" do |click| > stack :margin_left => 10, :width=> 600 do > @form = edit_box :width => 700, :height => 700 do |editing| > info "#{editing.text}" > end > @form.text = <<-HERE > You selected [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the menu > HERE > end > end > > end >
