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Re: Nonbreaking spaces in alerts

18 okt 2005 kl. 22.45 skrev John Stiles:

On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:

18 okt 2005 kl. 22.18 skrev Paul J. Lucas:


On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, John Stiles wrote:

Use option-space to make the non-breaking spaces. You can't use @"blah" for
this, since it's no longer ASCII, but you can load it as a localized string or
use stringWithUTF8String or something like that. 

    For the stringWithUTF8String, is there some Unicode code I can
    use inline, e.g., @"Mac&#xxxx;OS&#xxxx;X" ?

Yes, @"Mac\u00A0OS\u00A0X" should work.

Um, I don't think that will work. @"" strings only work with ASCII because there is no encoding specified. They might coincidentally work with MacRoman at present, but this is not guaranteed behavior, and the docs specifically warn against relying on this.

The \u notation is specified in C99, and it's certainly accepted by Apple's gcc when using the -std=c99 option. However, I was surprised to see that while the compiler accepted the code, the result wasn't what I had expected.

My guess is that gcc erroneously does in fact let the string pass through some locale encoding, even though it shouldn't. The \u notation is supposed to allow you to enter Unicode values in the code without having to worry about the encoding of the local system that runs the compile.

One thing you can do--try stringWithFormat. You can use %C to embed Unicode characters. Or you can put the UTF8 encoded text into a const char* buffer however you like (i.e. \x), and then use stringWithUTF8String.

Yes, under the circumstances this is the only safe way to achieve the desired result with any ease. However, I would like to stress that in most cases these strings are better put in separate strings files for easy localisation.

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