French accents

[Loïc REMY]

Hi,

 

I made many tests, without result…

 

In VStudio, the tables are in UTF-16 format and French  ‘locale’

 

In Director, I display texts without styles using message windows only, (using ‘put’) and there only ‘weird’ characters instead of accents

 

I don’t know what to do ?

 

I’m keeping searching.

 

Regards

 

Loïc

 

 

 

De : valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net [mailto:valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net] De la part de Panagiotis Apostolellis
Envoyé : mardi 7 juillet 2009 09:43
À : Valentina Developers
Objet : Re: French accents

 

Hello there Loic.

I presume your problem has to do with the font and not the database. I have recently implemented a database with a combination of Greek and French letters and it was a nightmare to make them work in Director. Here are some things I came up with:
a) If you import data in VStudio from a text file, use UTF-16 encoding to preserve all "weird" characters
b) Any font you use in Director version 11 and above has definitely to be UNICODE
c) If you use a unicode system font (like Arial Unicode) then all characters should appear fine and have styling as well (bold, italics)
d) If you embedd the font in Director, then weird things happen, like: 1) you cannot have styling (ignored in Text window), 2) if you apply styling then most probably you will loose the French accented characters. So instead import the font again, choose a Style from the Insert>Font... menu and give a different name to the Font cast member, which you will use in the Text window.

I haven't used the IOEncoding property and don't think would have made any difference. I strongly believe, the problem lies within the lame font manipulation by Director 11 or 11.5. In any case you can try my advice and provide some feedback.

Regards,
Takis

2009/7/7 Loïc REMY <loicremy at atelia.net>

Hi Ruslan

I just try this mod but without result :

 Valentina = new( xtra "Valentina" )
 Valentina.init( 9 * 1024 * 1024, "", "" )
 Valentina.debugLevel = #kLogErrors

 gDB = new ( xtra "VDatabase" )
 gDB.Open( the moviepath & "/db/lrp.vdb" )
 gDB.IOEncoding = "France"

I tried some other parameters : UTF-8, Latin1...without result to.

I don't know where to find precisions about this property (IOEncoding) since, in Pdf Manuel, it is only mentioned in summary ?

Best regards, an thank you

Loïc


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De : valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net [mailto:valentina-bounces at lists.macserve.net] De la part de Ruslan Zasukhin
Envoyé : lundi 6 juillet 2009 17:06
À : valentina at lists.macserve.net
Objet : Re: French accents


On 7/6/09 5:11 PM, "Loïc REMY" <loicremy at atelia.net> wrote:

Hi Loïc,

> I¹m a Valentina¹s beginner and I just develop a little application. I use
> Director 11.5 and I got a database whit French texts. In Valentina Studio, I
> can see all accents (éàŠ) but inside Director, they are replaced by a little
> square.
>
>
>
> Can you help me to solve that little problem ?

I think you need take a look on

   Vdatabase.IOEncoding = "France"

property


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