topic Re: German letters not showing properly in Archicad C++ API

[SOLVED] German letters not showing properly

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:06:44 GMT

Hello again,

I'm tryging to create a new attribute with name "Sto-Dämmplatte Top32", but the ä symbol seems to break like in the image bellow. What could be the possible reason for that? My code is something like that:


const char * name = vectorit->name.c_str();
                
strcpy (attrib.header.name, name);

Thanks in advance,
Julian C.

Re: German letters not showing properly

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 10:36:03 GMT

jcimentarov wrote:
I'm tryging to create a new attribute with name "Sto-Dämmplatte Top32", but the ä symbol seems to break like in the image bellow. What could be the possible reason for that? My code is something like that:
strcpy (attrib.header.name, name);

I think that's a text encoding problem. You probably want to set the attribute name using a GS::UniString, in which case you would set uniStringNamePtr rather than name in the attribute header. That should ensure the string encoding is correctly interpreted and preserved.

Re: German letters not showing properly

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:28:00 GMT


 GS::UniString uniName (vectorit->name.c_str());
                
 attrib.header.uniStringNamePtr = &uniName;
                
 WriteReport("uniname is %s", uniName.ToCStr().Get());

This is my code, but still when created in Archicad the name looks like this -"Sto-D√§mmplatte Top32". Strangely when I open my console.app it is logged as it should be: "uniname is Sto-Dämmplatte Top32"...

What else could it be? Just for the record I'm working on xcode 8.3.2

Re: German letters not showing properly

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:17:59 GMT

jcimentarov wrote:


 GS::UniString uniName (vectorit->name.c_str());

What is the encoding of vectorit->name? You need to pass the encoding type to the constructor of GS:tringor it may interpret it incorrectly, e.g. if the encoding is UTF-8:


 GS::UniString uniName (vectorit->name.c_str(), CC_UTF8);

Re: German letters not showing properly

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:40:55 GMT

Thanks Ralph!!! Everything works perfect now. Issue resolved ))