Accented characters in Lacewing

madmac · August 13, 2013 at 9:47 AM

This question relates to the thread I started elswhere.
See Please login to see this link. for all the details.

Brief breakdown of the issue . . .

In an ini file we have for example "name=Grégoire"

The application reads the ini file and populates say a field with the "name".
When the field receives its name it then uses Lacewing to join a group with that name.
If using an accented (foreign) character it doesn't connect to the group.

If I change the ini file to say "name=Gregoire" (note: no accented characters)
Then it works straight away and connects to the group.

Thanks for any help.

LB · August 13, 2013 at 3:49 PM

Lacewing does not have a Unicode version yet, it does not support any Unicode characters.

madmac · August 13, 2013 at 9:53 PM

Thanks for the response.
So if Lacewing doesn't have a Unicode version does that mean that someone using a foreign keyboard layout as their default, cannot use any of their accented characters in conjunction with Lacewing. i.e connecting to a group etc?
I just need to be 100% sure that I understand before I speak to the client.

Thanks again

LB · August 13, 2013 at 10:45 PM

I think it's possible to have a different extension encode the string in binary and have Lacewing send it as a binary message instead, and then translate the received binary back into unicode characters again, but I don't own the Unicode exporter so I don't know which extension(s) can do this. It is definitely possible, though. Just know that Lacewing always treats strings as non-unicode, so there is no way for user names or channel names to have unicode characters.

madmac · August 14, 2013 at 9:41 AM

Thanks for the confirmation - much appreciated

Phi · February 29, 2016 at 8:42 PM

madmac, the Please login to see this link. will let you encode Unicode characters - just send each character as shorts.

I may chuck out an update so you can handle whole Unicode strings.

Cheers

Phi · April 23, 2021 at 1:53 AM

Now Lacewing Blue is ported to Unicode, once it's released (or you sub on Please login to see this link. for early access) you will now get your accented characters sent over properly regardless of sender or receiver OS language.

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