Re: Nonbreaking spaces in alerts
Re: Nonbreaking spaces in alerts
- Subject: Re: Nonbreaking spaces in alerts
- From: Elias Mårtenson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:23:05 +0200
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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