LangString with characters having diacritical marks

pauljlucas · 16th November 2010, 21:02

If I'm using LangString with German, how should I enter characters that have diacritical marks? For example, I if I want a ü (small letter 'u' with an umlaut), how do I enter it?

Doing this:

code:
LangString LS_DesktopShortcutSecName ${LANG_GERMAN} "Verknüpfung auf dem Desktop"

where the ü has the byte value of 0xFC doesn't work. On the page in the generated installer, the umlauted ü displays Ã¼ (a capital letter 'A' with a tilde followed by a 1/4 fraction).

Afrow UK · 16th November 2010, 22:06

You must be pasting it as a Unicode character (2 bytes). Use something like Notepad 2 or Notepad++ (or some other converter) that allows you to convert between Unicode and ASCII.

Stu

pauljlucas · 18th November 2010, 02:24

No, I'm not pasting it as a Unicode character. I said the byte value of the ü is 0xFC (which is its ISO-8859-1 value). I did a hex dump of the file to ensure it really is only that single byte.

Aside from that, the ü character can not be represented in ASCII, so converting to ASCII is nonsensical.

gringoloco023 · 18th November 2010, 07:05

Afrow UK is right, but must have meant ANSI instead of ASCII .

I just tested it,

ANSI:
56 65 72 6B 6E FC 70 66 75 6E 67 ; Verknüpfung

UTF-8:
56 65 72 6B 6E C3 BC 70 66 75 6E 67 ; VerknÃ¼pfung

pauljlucas · 18th November 2010, 20:11

I had the 0xFC. Really. Any idea how it got converted?

jiake · 22nd November 2010, 01:33

I tested your string using LangString 1033 and it was displayed well on my system:

16th November 2010, 21:02	#1
pauljlucas Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: San Francisco Posts: 8	LangString with characters having diacritical marks If I'm using LangString with German, how should I enter characters that have diacritical marks? For example, I if I want a ü (small letter 'u' with an umlaut), how do I enter it? Doing this: code: LangString LS_DesktopShortcutSecName ${LANG_GERMAN} "Verknüpfung auf dem Desktop" where the ü has the byte value of 0xFC doesn't work. On the page in the generated installer, the umlauted ü displays Ã¼ (a capital letter 'A' with a tilde followed by a 1/4 fraction).

18th November 2010, 07:05	#4
gringoloco023 Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 52	Try using a different editor. Afrow UK is right, but must have meant ANSI instead of ASCII . I just tested it, ANSI: 56 65 72 6B 6E FC 70 66 75 6E 67 ; Verknüpfung UTF-8: 56 65 72 6B 6E C3 BC 70 66 75 6E 67 ; VerknÃ¼pfung

22nd November 2010, 01:33	#6
jiake Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Shanghai, China Posts: 207	I tested your string using LangString 1033 and it was displayed well on my system: Attached Thumbnails

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16th November 2010, 22:06	#2
Afrow UK Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Surrey, England Posts: 8,434	You must be pasting it as a Unicode character (2 bytes). Use something like Notepad 2 or Notepad++ (or some other converter) that allows you to convert between Unicode and ASCII. Stu

18th November 2010, 02:24	#3
pauljlucas Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: San Francisco Posts: 8	No, I'm not pasting it as a Unicode character. I said the byte value of the ü is 0xFC (which is its ISO-8859-1 value). I did a hex dump of the file to ensure it really is only that single byte. Aside from that, the ü character can not be represented in ASCII, so converting to ASCII is nonsensical.

18th November 2010, 20:11	#5
pauljlucas Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: San Francisco Posts: 8	I had the 0xFC. Really. Any idea how it got converted?