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lanjoe9 · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 1:11 am1 Post subject: Programming question (ARGH!!)

What's up with all this UTF-8 nonsense?!

"You must make sure you're not splitting a multi-byte character"
Fine, make it unnecessarilly harder for newbie devs, but... HOW DO I MAKE SURE?!! I couldn't find anything anywhere explaining how!!!

Now there's another thing, I thought I had found a way around that problem.
Copying things from a BString into a char array variable.
I tried using the BString's "CopyInto()" function.

Result: "Hiroshi needs to fill this"....
yeah, right!!!!! ¬_¬****************

Is there any other way to do it?

And I have yet another question: Why on earth if there's something on the code that causes a crash, does that thread still keep running until suddenly CRASH, instead of just crashing in THAT point?? Makes bug-hunting a lot harder (you go on commenting instructions from the bottom up... until you found out instruction number two made all the mess). I'm not complaining that the other threads still run after the crash (I've been able to save images after a crash and then exit manually the program without pressing exit, a MULTI threaded program. But actually running the same thread after a crash without saying anything makes bug hunting a lot worse)...
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Monni the Cat · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 9:03 am2 Post subject: UTF-8

I think you need to check some little UTF-8 tutorial, As I have understood, every character in UTF-8 sequence has special byte mask that you can check to be sure that some byte is end of sequence or not. And if the ASCII value is lower than 128, it's not even part of UTF-8 sequence.

UTF-8 is a way to represent more than 256 characters at same time, but downside is that it uses more than 1 byte per character.

ArDrakho · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 5:29 pm3 Post subject:

quote:
"I think you need to check some little UTF-8 tutorial, ..."

Where is this tutorial? Pease forward a link for related info...thanks!

ArDrakho

lanjoe9 · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 4:07 am4 Post subject:

I don't know exactly what I did but now it stopped crashing and works. I can't save a text file with UTF characters properly yet, though... even though I send everything inside a buffer "as is"..

If you post the link, I promise stop pressing the "any" key whenever you show up in BeShare.

BTW, how's unizone coming up? where can I download it?
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tetsu · NewBe Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Sweden

Always start to look in the BeBook

Don't know if it was this you wanted, but it will probably get you a better insight of how UTF-8 works

http://bang.dhs.org/be/bebook/The%20Interface%20Kit/2_Responding.html#UTF-8