[Gambas-user] How to deal with unicode

[Charlie Reinl]

Am Dienstag, den 24.06.2014, 17:43 +0000 schrieb Safiur Rahman:
> I am converting an application to local language which uses "Devanagri" letters and numbers. I have changed System.Language to "ne_NP.UTF-8". My System.Charset is "UTF-8". I have little knowledge of lacalization methods used by gambas. My problems are:
> 1) Datebox displays month and week days in Devanagri but not the day numbers.
> 2) How can I write Devanagri numbers (eg. १२३४५६७८९०) in valuebox?
> 3) How can I do arithematical calculations using these numbers?
> 4) How can I save these numbers in database table with numerical type column? If I save English numbers in database then how can I display those numbers on application in Devanagri?
> 5) How can I create table columns in UTF-8. The gb.mysql works (ie. $hCon.MySQL.Table.Add("fldCost", "InnoDB", $hCon.MySQL.Charset) created column with UTF-8 type). However gb.db doesnot work wih mysql (ie. hTable = $con.Tables.Add("tbllabel") doesnot create column with UTF-8 type in MySQL database). I am using mariadb version 10.
> 
> System Information:
> [System]
> Gambas=3.5.3
> OperatingSystem=Linux
> Kernel=3.11.0-23-generic
> Architecture=x86
> Distribution=Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
> Desktop=GNOME
> Theme=QGtk
> Language=en_US.UTF-8
> Memory=1944M
> [Libraries]
> Cairo=libcairo.so.2.11000.2
> Curl=libcurl.so.4.2.0
> DBus=libdbus-1.so.3.5.8
> GStreamer=libgstreamer-0.10.so.0.30.0
> GStreamer=libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.1.0
> GTK+=libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.10
> OpenGL=libGL.so.1.2.0
> Poppler=libpoppler.so.19.0.0
> Qt4=libQtCore.so.4.8.1
> SDL=libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.3
> 

Salut,

read the doc for UTF8 :  http://gambasdoc.org/help/cat/string?show&v3 




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Amicalement
Charlie