Unicode characters in maxGUI

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Robb (Posted 2007) [#1]

Having just purchased maxGUI I'm initially pretty dissapointed that I don't seem to be able to display UTF-8 characters such as accents or kanji within the GUI gadgets. Granted I haven't had a chance to go over the documentation but is it actually possible? ...I really hope so :-S

computercoder (Posted 2007) [#2]

Not having done this myself, but after working with MaxGUI for about a year now, I'm thinking it may be in the Font, using SetGadgetFont.

SebHoll (Posted 2007) [#3]

Are you using Windows? Skid's new development module is supposed to support unicode characters better - see here. You might want to sync the BETA and have a go to see if it has what you want... However, it's by no at its final stages yet.

Brucey (Posted 2007) [#4]

The Mac and Linux (GTK) platforms can display UTF-8 character sets without issue, as far as I know. Sure, it's a bit disappointing on the Windows side, but it's getting there.