Unicode: str_createw(short* s)

I think it was already a long time ago that you implemented Unicode support for Gamestudio, but only recently I looked at how this Unicode support actually works.

The manual says, I'm supposed to write my strings in a text file and read them with txt_loadw. WTF? I can't write Unicode strings at runtime and without having all my strings preset in a text file, and open to everyone?

So, I would like to have a function str_createw(short* s).
It would use short, because wchar_t doesn't exist in Lite-C, but short is basically the same anyway.

This way, I could create a Unicode string like this:


The string would then be "こんにちは".

That wouldn't be hard to implement, would it?


EDIT: Oh, and of course, there should also be a function _short(STRING* s) that returns a short array for a string, just like _chr(STRING*) returns a char array for "normal" strings.

Mh test it out, but if i remember correctly, generated strings are unicode.

I remember when they introduced Unicode, ANet/GSTNet crashed.
I used runtime strings. A7 generated Unicode strings and Anet/GSTNet required still ascii strings->BOOM.

So i think, runtime strings are Unicodestrings.

Really? But even if that's the case, I can still only create ASCII characters in runtime strings, because they are created with char arrays, not with wchart_t or short arrays.

+1 On this request!
Doing Unicode processing and string generation at runtime isn't that hard, whats really hard is to force it into an STRING object.

Bump.

Ok, we'll implement Unicode string generation from a short* pointer.

Thanks!

draw_text(mystring);

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it's fine! thanks a lot everyone.