ios Answer dialog and utf text from array?

[strongbow]

Hi all

I have what I think is a strange problem (obviously my lack of understanding at the moment...).

On iOS the answer dialog can display foreign characters like umlauts etc e.g. ü, ä, ö. However, when I have language strings containing these characters in an array, they do not seem to display correctly. Strangely they do appear in the console log correctly so I know they're stored in the array ok.

I tested it by just inserting a straight

answer "Bitte wählen Sie eine Station."

which works ok.

But when I use my function as follows, it doesn't work. It displays the text but with the umlaut displayed as "ä".

i.e. "Bitte wählen Sie eine Station."

function is:

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on smAnswer pMsg
   -- display a message in correct current language
   -- gLang is an array of message keys and texts for current language.
   -- pMsg is the key for the text we want to extract.

   put gLang[pMsg] into tMsg
   if tMsg is empty then
      smLog "Error: could not find translation into " & gSMPrefs["Lang"] & " for string[" & pMsg & "]"
      answer pMsg
   else
     answer "Bitte wählen Sie eine Station."   -- THIS works ok but next line not.
      answer tMsg
   end if
end smAnswer

Any ideas? I've already tried variations on putting into a field and getting it from there, converting to/from UTF8 etc that is needed elsewhere... No doubt it's something simple that I've overlooked... I hope!

cheers

Alan

[Mark]

Hi Alan,

Probably you need to convert from UTF8 to text or maybe UTF16 to text. What is the encoding of the original string?

To convert, try one of these:

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put uniDecode(tMsg) into tMsg // UTF16
put uniDecode(uniEncode(tMsg,"UTF8")) into tMsg // UTF8

Kind regards,

Mark

[strongbow]

Hi Mark

Ahh, thanks for that. I'd actually tried a variation of that but I now realise that the one I'd used was for saving UTF8 to a file... oops.

So the key thing was converting the UTF8 encoded string to a single-byte string suitable for iOS answer dialog, using

put uniDecode(uniEncode(tMsg,"UTF8")) into tMsg

Thanks again for the quick response.

cheers

Alan

[Klaus]

I'm impatiently waiting for the day that RunRev promised, where "Unicode! It just works!"

[Mark]

Me too, Klaus. Me too. RealStudio has it. Why not LiveCode, I wonder?

Mark

[strongbow]

Me three, four and five!