Yes indeedy, shoes uses UTF-8 for all text. UTF-8 is incompatible with extended ascii. In your text editor of choice you should find an Encoding menu somewhere in the menu bar, which you can set to UTF-8, and resave your application. It should then run fine. :)

I'm unsure about the video thing.


On 21/12/2008, at 9:36 AM, comptroller killjoy wrote:

First of all, great work with shoes.  I've never been so excited to
get serious about programming.

Now, first question.  I can't get any text elements to display
extended ascii characters.  For example, para ("próxima") displays
"pr", as do caption, inscription, alert(), etc..   What is the status
or plans for support of extended ASCII characters?

Second question.  Video is working well. Except when I try to play
video files with medium or large dimensions.  I'm guessing that
anything larger than 400x300 doesn't play, because of line 1500 in
ruby.c in the shoes_video_draw function
(http://github.com/why/shoes/tree/master/shoes/ruby.c):

SETUP(shoes_video, REL_CANVAS, 400, 300);

Am I correct that this line is the reason videos with larger
dimensions won't play?  Are there any plans for adding support for
larger dimensions, or being able to specify the dimensions of the
video element?


thanks much

cd with ruby shoes

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