String Encoding (UTF8)

Hi there,

I'm using a UTF8-encoded SQLite-Database (with GSTSQLite) in my current project. I need this encoding, because my project involves different languages. Now, when I'm pulling varchata data from the database into a string, I get e.g. "ü" instead of the german umlaut "ü". As a web developer I know this problem quite well, but in regards of Lite-C I have no idea how to handle this.

And just for background information: I'm currently displaying my strings in a panel digit with the font definition "Arial#14b".

Is there an equivalent to the php function "utf8_decode()"? How can I solve my problem?

Any hints are appreciated.

Patrick

Okay, after some digging I stumbled upon this Thread... Wish I had found it yesterday. ;-)

/close

did you solved??

when i read UTF8 notepad texts it gives those wierd things, wish i could convert UTF8 to ANSCI IN RUNTIME. Since im using an http reader, that recieves textsof html, UTF8

Sorry for the late reply.

I didn't really solve this problem. I am know generating my database entries from within the engine to avoid the problem.

to bad..
because i have a similar problem.
What im doing is downloading a html page, and then read the its UTF encoded.. and the html is not outputing correclty.

Maybe you can solve your problem the other way round (although I didn't try it):

If you're generating your html via php, you could try to utf8_decode/utf8_encode your html output to get 3dgs-readable data. This is something I have to try out myself in a couple of weeks, when trying to update Rankings from a webserver, but I'm not quite there yet.

hum its not php sometimes..
The thing is that this reads RSS feeds for example, and other locak weather conditions, that will show up. and those sites aren't php. :\
saving as txt or html is not the solution.

i though got a program in c++ that converts a input file into any encoded i want.

So this is the process..
Request HTML -> save HTML to something.txt or .gs then, Call a comand EXECUTE to execute the program converter with parameters like silent( no windows) and the output name.. and the conversion encoding format.. --> then finaly read that last ffile, that is the GS format to read.

If you need that program i can give you, it took me alot to found such on the web for free..