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

[John Rose]

Jussi,

I spoke too soon. There seems to be one problem with having non-ASCII
characters entered into a TextBox. If I make a string variable (sText in
my attached Test project) equal to the Text property of the TextBox
(PrintedTextBox.Text in my Test project), then the string variable needs
to have String methods applied to it when using Len etc. Am I correct?
Possible solution is to use sText = String.Mid(PrintedTextBox.Text, 1,
String.Len(PrintedTextBox)) instead of sText = PrintedTextBox.Text, but
I guess that would mean that String methods would also have to be used
on sText.

John


On 18/03/15 07:31, John Rose wrote:
> 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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