Reading a Unicode text file?

[netninja]

I'm trying to simply load a UTF-8 encoded text file into MMF2, however it still seems to display it with ANSI encoding.

I have this simple code for a textbox:

"start of frame - load text file 'book.txt'"

and it displays — and “ as â€.

If I manually edit a string to have these characters, they display normally, but I can't find a way to load textfiles that read them properly. I noticed that these characters even work in the normal version of MMF2 anyway. I know that my font supports these characters.

How do I get a text file to load and display these characters?

[Phi]

UTF-8 and ANSI are the same until you reach the bytes worth 128+.
It's likely the open command doesn't specify the encoding to be utf-8, in which case the object will need to be rewritten.

[netninja]

I've tried the Edit object, File Stream and the List object and none of them work!

I'm finding this quite frustrating because I bought Unicode MMF with the intention of being able to read Unicode characters!

Are there any extensions which can read large UTF-8 encoded text files (or otherwise specify the encoding) and display them somehow in MMF?

[Fernando]

Hi,

sorry to bump here.

did you try to use webview?

I will like to mention that some UTF-8 files downloaded or taken from the web using Chrome or Firefox are diferent.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/e...UTF-8-demo.txt

in this link you will find a demo file if you download using chrome or firefox this is not going to work but if you download using IE you will see that works correctly, if you use from internet directly it will always works .

also i add both files see (in a HexEditor i am using HxD ***free***) one start with the unicode byte mark (IE ===> EF BB BF) and for Chrome and Firefox NO (a single 0A).

Hope it helps


EDIT: i see you have developer you may use web control object.

[netninja]

I opened your example .mfa but it crashed when I tried to open a file. I didn't have the WebView extension, and your program required "Webview2.mfx" which I thought may have been a duplicate?

I know that my text files are encoded as UTF-8. If I open the two sample files that you included with Notepad++, it detects the encoding of one as ANSI and the other UTF-8, as you said. Similarly, with my own text file, it detects it as UTF-8.

Is webview able to display UTF-8 encoded files properly on Windows?

[Fernando]

WebView2 is the correct name this object have the same name as the one from iOS.

here is the link

http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=68655&highlight=webview

but since you have developer use web control object more powerful, when you open a document that is signed in UTF-8 using the menu you will see the encoding also you may read the encoding using the extension.

webview and web control object can show correctly the UTF-8 on windows.

[netninja]

I installed the version of the extension that you specified, however when I run the example, first the .exe crashes due to "KcWebX.mfx", and then MMF itself crashes, also due to "KcWebX.mfx"

I'm using MMF2 Dev Beta 3 after build 254 and Windows 7 64-bit.

Thanks for taking the time to try and help though.

Ideally what I'm trying to do is simply display a sentence from a UTF-8 text file, word by word, in a very large font on-screen.

[Yves]

I've tried the Edit object, File Stream and the List object and none of them work!

I've just tried the Edit and List objects, they can load Unicode text files...

These files must start with a special mark that says how they are encoded. Save Unicode text files with Notepad to see what I mean.

[Phi]

That mark is known as BOM (Byte Order Mark), but it is not necessary to include it Yves, you can use the "wb, encoding=..." instead of just "wb" in the fopen() call.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yeby3zcb.aspx

You can add the UTF-8 BOM mark by prepending 3 bytes with values 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF to the start of the file. In decimal terms, that's 3 bytes, 239 187 191. You can add it with the Binary object. Or a CT dude could add that functionality to an extension

[Fernando]

I installed the version of the extension that you specified, however when I run the example, first the .exe crashes due to "KcWebX.mfx", and then MMF itself crashes, also due to "KcWebX.mfx"

I'm using MMF2 Dev Beta 3 after build 254 and Windows 7 64-bit.

Thanks for taking the time to try and help though.

Ideally what I'm trying to do is simply display a sentence from a UTF-8 text file, word by word, in a very large font on-screen.

perfect you may use the web object and after that use the find text features and send to clipboard after that you may use inside string or edit box.

download the object from my web page, the last version is 3.1u