Re: [hatari-users] Accents in UI

[Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxx>]

Am Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:33:39 +0200
schrieb Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 10/10/2012 23:25, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > Yes, the Hatari UI completely lacks i18n support. The font that we
> > use supports the characters from latin-1 (see
> > src/gui-sdl/font10x16.bmp), but if your host system uses UTF-8 or
> > Windows-1252 code pages, this likely results in wrong characters.
> 
> Indeed, my French Windows XP uses Windows-1252 as code page.
> 
> But Windows-1252 is almost the same as latin1, so if you blindly
> consider that the charset is latin1, it will work.
> 
> > Do you know the code of the characters that are not displayed right?
> 
> Very common ones, such as é
> 
> NB: Beware of default char singned/unsigned issues. It varies among 
> compilers. Just in case...

Uh, I think you're right ... there might be a problem with the sign...
In case you're ready to re-compile the Hatari sources, could you please
try to change "char c" in SDLGui_Text() in src/gui-sdl/sdlgui.c to
"unsigned char c" instead, to see whether this makes a difference?

 Thanks,
  Thomas