wxRichTextCtrl and unicode / utf-8 Topic is solved

[vouk]

I am using wxWidgets 3.1.2 on Windows with MSVC. I have this code:

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richText.WriteText("Valnir\u00c6sirsson"); // Got this from external JSON data

Unfortunately it appears as:

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ValnirÆsirsson

It should be:

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ValnirÆsirsson

How can I fix this? Thank you.

[PB]

(I assume that in your code you pass a variable and not a literal stored in a source file)

I guess that you need to convert it to the encoding wxString uses (e.g., UTF-16 on MSW):

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richText.WriteText(wxString::FromUTF8("Valnir\u00c6sirsson")); 

Checking if the conversion succeeded (i.e., wxString has the same number of characters as the UTF-8 string) could be a good idea.

[vouk]

Sorry, i was not precise enough.

The value is coming from external JSON:

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[{"name":"Valnir\u00c6sirsson"}]

I read that in with wxHTTP and it is stored in a wxString like this:

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res = {m_impl=L"[{\"name\":\"Valnir\\u00c6sirsson\"}]"}

So unfortunately it is an actual backslash in there. So it seems I need to rather fix that JSON endpoint.