Foreign accented characters

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On 24/05/2008 at 20:04, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Cinema 4D Version:   10.x 
Platform:      Mac OSX  ; 
Language(s) :   C.O.F.F.E.E  ;

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When I try to print to the console, something like this:

"Olá, estaria um muitíssimo bom dia, não fossem as poças de água"

(this is portuguese, don't bother in translating it ;))

...I get a lot of weird characters where the accented characters are.
This also happens when providing a title to a dialog, for example.
I tried to create a routing to change all accented characters to their non-accented version:

> \> clean_diacritics(sentence) \> {     var clean,size,f,new_char; \> \>      size=sizeof(sentence); \>      clean=""; \>      for(f=0;f<size;f++) \>           { \>           new_char=strstr("áéíóúàèìòùâêîôûãõäëïöüÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÂÊÎÔÛÃÕÄËÏÖÜçÇ",tostring(sentence[f],"c")); \>           if(new_char>=0) \>                clean=stradd(clean,strmid("aeiouaeiouaeiouaoaeiouAEIOUAEIOUAEIOUAOAEIOUcC",new_char,1)); \>           else \>                clean=stradd(clean,tostring(sentence[f],"c")); \>           } \>      return clean; \> } \>

But his didn't work :(
Is there any way to correctly show or even access the accented characters?
Thank you in advance for any reply :)

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On 24/05/2008 at 21:13, xxxxxxxx wrote:

The characters must be in Unicode format. It is possible that using the characters the way you are is translating into some other format (?). For instance, in my .str files, the format is specified like this:

"S\u00ed"

for Sí and where \u00ed is the accented i from Espanol.

You can get Unicode information online or from the Unicode link in the 'string' section of the COFFEE SDK docs.

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On 25/05/2008 at 17:52, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank you for the answer, Robert. The problem is that I get the strings in the format in that they are typed. That means that I would have to create a routine to analize them and convert them to Unicode. But I can't make much of the codes I get from the original string. For example, if the original string is:
> "aeiou" (but the acented version with the accent equal to the one you showed in your previous post) I can't type the correctly accented characters here because they get "dirty" too, when posted.
The output of:
> <code> for(var f=0;f<sizeof(line);f++) println(line[f]); </code>
is: 8730 176 8730 169 8730 8800 8730 8805 8730 8747 I reached the conclusion that 8730 is an indicator that the following character is a Unicode character. The problem is to understant that the 176,169,8800,8805 and 8747 are. They are decimal numbers that, I confess, I can't match with anything I see in Unicode tables. Any ideas? ;) Rui Batista

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On 25/05/2008 at 18:37, xxxxxxxx wrote:

The Unicode values are specified in hexadecimal - but if converting these still doesn't add up to similar Unicode, it may be that they're in another format - such as UTF-8 or something.

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On 26/05/2008 at 16:49, xxxxxxxx wrote:

The problem that I have is that, if I print the string to the console (with println), it prints out fine. When I use the same string in a TextDialog or in SetTitle, it prints out all wrong :(
The strings are read from a file and I can't control what is there. I mean, it can contain accented characters or not. I have to print them to the console (it prints file) but I may also have to use them in TexDialog or in SetTitle. In that case, the string appears all messed up. What can I do to make it work? Don't forget I'm using COFFEE :)

Rui Batista

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On 26/05/2008 at 17:15, xxxxxxxx wrote:

That's going to make it difficult. For dialogs and such, the strings must be in Unicode formatting - as if you were doing another language .str file for the dialog for instance.

Do you know what extended-character formatting these files are in by chance?

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On 26/05/2008 at 18:59, xxxxxxxx wrote:

The files are saves as MacRoman encoding (plain ASCII) and they are read using:
> file_source=file_data->ReadString(file_data->GetLength(),GE_8BIT);
When I print the variable file_source to the console, using:
> println(file_source);
It prints out fine. But is I use, for example:
> TextDialog(file_source);
It messes all the characters. The funny thing is that if I perform a simple test of creating a variable with the accented characters with:
> var test="the accented characters go here" TextDialog(test);
(I didn't typed the accented characters here because they also appear messed up here) it all prints out fine!! WEIRD!!!