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Re: newbie unicode problem


  • Subject: Re: newbie unicode problem
  • From: Magnus Strand <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:35:46 +0100


Hi Daniel,


I haven't used Chinese characters myself, but here is one interesting article:



http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ATSUI_Concepts/atsui_chap1/chapter_1_section_1.html


Overview of ATSUI

Mac OS X is an international operating system. It fully supports Unicode and comes with high-quality fonts capable of displaying many languages, including Japanese and Chinese. Mac OS X supports input of nonphonetic characters used by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean through the use of input methods. Because Mac OS X uses Unicode for all onscreen text display, ASTUI is at the heart of all text drawing in Mac OS X, as shown in Figure 1-1. From the Mac OS X Human Interface Toolbox to the Menu Manager, all Mac OS X text drawing at some point uses ATSUI to render Unicode text. For example, the Finder uses ATSUI to display menu items and create text editing fields:

Perhaps you can try with the ATSUI sample code.

Also are you using a font that has Chinese characters?

Regards,
Magnus


Daniel Child wrote:

Hi All.

I am trying to do a simple app that involves Chinese and bopomofo characters. The app works except for one aspect: I can't seem to get Unicode characters to print correctly to the NSTextFields in the window. I have an entry field and a result field. There are two problems:

- if I type in a character (of any type) into an entry field, it does not seem to be correctly recognized
- if I print a character to the textfield (using setStringValue) it is also not typed correctly to the result field


I have tried UTF-8 as the encoding for source files, but that didn't work. (Naturally I set appropriate fonts for the textfields in the IB window.) Actually, UTF16 seems like a more logical choice, but for some reason, if I set source files to UTF16, I get a string of warnings and errors about invalid characters when I build and run.

If someone could fill me on the basic steps (differences) for working with Asian characters, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Daniel

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