[Gambas-user] Bizarre results when entering a £ symbol into a TextArea or TextBox

[John Rose]

Jussi,

Since you are top posting, I shall also top post: hopefully, it won't
start another long discussion. Thanks for the suggestion about using
String methods.

The Test app now works properly using the String methods. Also, the =
and &= operators work OK for strings containing non-ASCII characters
such as $.

John



On 17/03/15 15:50, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> Oh I missed you are using Mid() function, it is only for ASCII characters,
> use String.Mid() instead.
>
>
> Jussi
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:33 PM, John Rose <john.aaron.rose at ...626...>
> wrote:
>
>> On 17/03/15 13:33, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
>>> Maybe the console takes only ASCII characters?
>>>
>>>
>>> Jussi
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:00 PM, John Rose <john.aaron.rose at ...626...>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When entering a £ character (i.e. the British pound symbol not the
>>>> American one) into a TextArea or TextBox, it seems to be 'interpreted'
>>>> as a funny looking question mark (i.e. sort of reverse black & white)
>>>> when it's shown on the Console using a Print statement (actioned in a
>>>> Change event). I wonder if this could be due to Gambas/Ubuntu regarding
>>>> my keyboard as American even though it's 'installed' within Ubuntu as
>>>> British.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> I don't think that it's caused by Print statements to the Console. When
>> I amend the Change event coding (see below) for the TextArea and run the
>> app with just a £ character keyed into the TextArea, I get on the
>> Console (with the £ character displayed OK in the TextArea):
>> X
>> sCh=�
>> Y
>> ZZ
>> *
>> ***
>>
>> The coding is:
>>   Dim i As Integer
>>   Dim sCh As String
>>   For i = 1 To PrintedTextArea.Length
>>     sCh = Mid(PrintedTextArea.Text, i, 1)
>>     Print "sCh=" & sCh
>>     Print "X"
>>     Print "sCh=" & sCh
>>     Print "Y"
>>     sCh = Mid(Last.Text, i, 1)
>>     Select sCh
>>       Case "£", "?", "&", ".", "/", "="
>>         Print "Z"
>>       Case Else
>>         Print "ZZ"
>>     End Select
>>     Print "*"
>>   Next
>>   Print "***"
>>
>> Which implies that the above Select statement is not recognising an
>> input £ as it is regarded it as the funny question mark when input into
>> the TextArea. Looking at www.asciitable.com, Chr(35) is # which I would
>> assume that Ubuntu should regard as a £ on a British keyboard.  There
>> seems to be a bug: either on Ubuntu or Gambas. Which is it?
>>
>>
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