Forum: wxRuby Handling Unicode in WxRuby

If I am using Ruby 1.8.7, what are some recommended practices for
supporting Unicode within a WxRuby application?  My understanding, based
on web research, is that I should use the multibyte module of Active
Support in order to add Unicode support to Ruby 1.8.7 (Ruby 1.9 includes
Unicode support natively).

Generally, I have read the recommendation that it is best to do
everything in UTF-8.  I can try to do so, but am wondering how WxRuby
handles strings that are passed to set properties, e.g., the text of a
label.  Does this library expect strings to be in a certain encoding?
How can UTF-8 be specified to WxRuby?

Jamal

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Am 19.07.2011 02:51, schrieb Jamal Mazrui:
> If I am using Ruby 1.8.7, what are some recommended practices for
> supporting Unicode within a WxRuby application?  My understanding,
> based on web research, is that I should use the multibyte module of
> Active Support in order to add Unicode support to Ruby 1.8.7 (Ruby
> 1.9 includes Unicode support natively).

I'd highly recommend using Ruby 1.9. It's much more painless.
Back in times before I switched to Ruby 1.9, I used the Iconv module
(stdlib) to convert all my strings to UTF-8. If I remember correctly, it
worked like this:

require "iconv"
ary = Iconv.iconv("UTF-8", "yoursourceencoding", "1st_string", 
"2nd_string")

> Generally, I have read the recommendation that it is best to do
> everything in UTF-8.  I can try to do so, but am wondering how
> WxRuby handles strings that are passed to set properties, e.g., the
> text of a label.  Does this library expect strings to be in a certain
> encoding? How can UTF-8 be specified to WxRuby?

wxRuby expects your strings to be UTF-8-encoded, there's no way to tell
wxRuby you want to use another encoding AFAIK. wxRuby just passes the
strings directly to the underlying wxWidgets, resulting in incorrect
characters being displayed in the final GUI.

> Jamal

Vale,
Marvin

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