From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-08-19T06:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: accented letters


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> Datum: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:21:51 +0900
> Von: angico <angico@angico.org>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: accented letters

> Hi, all.
> 
> I'm developing an application using FXRuby and need to enter text that
> has accented letters in it (portuguese texts).
> 
> But the controls doesn't show the accented letters as I type them - just
> the corresponding letter without the accent.
> 
> I've captured SEL_KEYPRESS for a FXText control and I can see that it
> "sees" as I type in the key with the accent, and then the key for the
> letter I want to have accented.
> 
> Here's an excerpt of the output of the captured event (the relevant
> statement here is puts data.text << " (" << data.code.to_s << ")"):
> 
>  (65505)
> < (60)
> p (112)
>  (65505)
> > (62)
>  (65505)
> I (73)
> s (115)
> t (116)
> o (111)
>   (32)
>  (65105)
> e (101)
>   (32)
> c (99)
> e (101)
> r (114)
> t (116)
> o (111)
>  (65505)
> < (60)
> / (47)
> p (112)
>  (65505)
> > (62)
> 
> -------------------
> 
> I know that (65105) is the code for the left shift. (65105) would be the
> code for the acute accent, which followed by the letter e (101) should
> give me an "e acute" (�), but the control shows just the simple "e".
> 
> Does anybody have a hint on this?
> 
> TIA,
> 
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Dear Angico,

you'll need to convert your text to  utf-8 encoding using Iconv.
Have a look at this (somewhat randomly copied from a Wikipedia
article about the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre) and the FXRuby
tutorial:

require "rubygems"
require "iconv"
require 'fox16'

include Fox


theApp = FXApp.new
text = Iconv.iconv("utf-8","iso-8859-1","Interpreta��o do Brasil")
p text


theMainWindow = FXMainWindow.new(theApp, text[0])
text2="O Brasil do futuro n�o vai ser o que os velhos historiadores disserem e os de hoje repetem. Vai ser o que Gilberto Freyre disser. Freyre � um dos g�nios de palheta mais rica e iluminante que estas terras ant�rticas ainda produziram."
message = Iconv.iconv("utf-8","iso-8859-1",text2)

theButton = FXButton.new(theMainWindow, message[0])
theButton.connect(SEL_COMMAND) do |sender, selector, data|
  exit
end

theApp.create

theMainWindow.show
theApp.run

Best regards,

Axel 

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