How can I use LUA to set chinese string in CEGUI

[finezwx]

I make CEGUI interface use Lua.
and I need Set some chinese string in StaticText.

for Example:
cstrUIHelpWindowHelpText = "大家好"
pWindow = winMgr:getWindow("Root/MainBgImage/TextBgImage/TextWindow")

local myString2,myString = StringToUtf8(cstrUIHelpWindowHelpText,myString1)

pWindow:setText(myString)

StringToUtf8() is a C++ function. and it can work well in C++.

But It's messy code.

[haihuojiming]

hi. i know the problem you have.

lua support the asc code, so when you translate the string to unicode, you won't have the right result.

I'm Chinese too, add me msn

haihuogeming#163.com .. maybe i can help you

[scriptkid]

Exactly, it's about the ascii support in lua. What i did for a project was come up with a helper function which i did bind:

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void Gui::setWinTextUTF8(std::string winName, std::string winText)
   {
      CEGUI::WindowManager& winMgr = CEGUI::WindowManager::getSingleton();
      if (winMgr.isWindowPresent(winName))
      {
         CEGUI::Window* win = winMgr.getWindow(winName);
         win->setText((CEGUI::utf8*)winText.c_str());
      }
   }


which you could call as:

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gui_wrapper:setWinTextUTF8("Root/MainBgImage/TextBgImage/TextWindow", "大家好");

So that you don't have a conversion 'through' the binding. I can confirm that it works for Japanese and Korean at least.

HTH.

[haihuojiming]

the function works for Chinese too .

i add a a method setTextA to base class CEGUI::Window, it use a virtual interface to tanslate the code.

but... ... scriptkid
do you forget to use a transform funtion for ascToUTF8 ?
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void Gui::setWinTextUTF8(std::string winName, std::string winText)
{
CEGUI::WindowManager& winMgr = CEGUI::WindowManager::getSingleton();
if (winMgr.isWindowPresent(winName))
{
CEGUI::Window* win = winMgr.getWindow(winName);
--
CEGUI::String UtfText = (CEGUI::utf8*)ascToUtf8(winText.c_str());
--
win->setText(UtfText );
--
}
}
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[finezwx]

thank you very much.
and I have take a try, It worked for me.

I didn't use msn. and this is my QQ:173683327