Hello,
maybe a stupid question.
In a TextArea I type the following. “È tutto”; I save it via BinaryStream and everything works (as far as saving) but when I open it I get “�� tutto”.
The computer language is set to italian, why don’t I get the accented E but 2 �� ?
Open it? Open it how?
Sorry, from a code in a pushbutton that reads the specific binaryStream, It puts the sentence in the right TextArea but the accented characters are wrong
To answer the question you’ve asked, Encodings.
I gave a talk on this at XDC a few years ago that might help you understand the issue.
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The short answer is, when you read from a BinaryStream, the code sees raw bytes. You have to use DefineEncoding to tell it how to interpret those bytes so it can show the characters they are meant to represent.
Funny. I tried and this is what I got (UTF16): 裃甠慮瀠潲慶
And with DefineEncoding(Encodings.UTF8) you get?
It works. I tried UTF16 because I was not sure UTF8 had accented characters.
Thanks for your help
UTF8 supports everything that UTF16 does. Well almost, some variants only support 1, 2 and 3 byte codes missing some emoji out. I’m not sure if Xojo supports the 4 byte characters.
You could guess that it does (and a large number of eastern asian languages too, from the fact that most websites across the world are UTF-8 (97.9%, in fact). See:
Thank you everybody for your help
Have a good day/night (depending where tou are)
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