Unicode

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Retimer

(Posted 2010) [#1]

First time trying to play with this in blitz to support unicode messages for my game.

My client is in flash, so manually the strings are made and sent in a byte array (2 bytes per character). Is there a simple function with the new unicode support to convert the byte array into a unicode string?

Edit: Also, is there writestring/readstring functions for streams to write unicode?

Brucey

(Posted 2010) [#2]

2 bytes per character

UTF-16?
Depending on the endianness of those 2-byte characters, it might translate straight into a BlitzMax String.

Retimer

(Posted 2010) [#3]

Thanks

SebHoll

(Posted 2010) [#4]

String.FromWString() will convert from a Short Ptr to a BlitzMax String.