Unicode Help Needed
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| Hi all, I have a few questions about Unicode. I'm trying to put Japanese text into my game. Here's what I'm doing. 1. I create a text file with japanese text. I confirm the text by using a font like batang.ttf so I can see it in notepad. I then save it as UTF-8 format. 2. In my code I'm using the Big Endian code that Ziggy made to bring the file data in. It seems to be getting scrambled but I don't know why. 3. If I hardcode the data from the text file into my code it shows up correctly in the game without any problem, but somehow I'm scrambling it wrong. So here's the questions: 1. What am I doing wrong with the Big Endian code? Or should I be using something else? 2. Is UTF-8 the correct format to save the file in? Any other suggestions you guys might have would be appreciated. Thanks -Keith |
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If you are saving the file as utf8 then:myunicode$=LoadText(filename.txt) should just work. |
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| Thanks skidracer. That's apparently what I needed. However, that returns the whole file's contents. Before I was just reading line, by line and saving the data to an array in my program. Is there an easy way to get this functionality back once I go down this road? Sorry for the simple question. :) |
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| No worries. I figured it out. I just parsed the strings with Instr, Left, and Right and got it working in about 8 lines of code. Probably easier ways to do it, but this works well. :) |
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| you could use the class I've implemented to read unicode files as text streams (it's based on the loadtext function of mark) here you have it http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=61706#690019 |
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