[Gambas-user] Problem to be examined by those who must use UTF8 with Gambas

[Fernando Cabral]

I've been testing my new toy with every large and small text I can put my
hands on. The fact is, I have had surprise after surprise. I've just found
that when I read a text that contains "À" (that's an A with a grave accent
(`A) -- or  a backward acute accent for those who are not familiar with
diacritics).

Well, I can't display it if I load it into a TextArea.text. Nothing shows.
I mean, NOTHING. That is, I have a blank screen. If I bring it to lowercase
(à or `a) it will show up (in lowercase) with the rest of the text.

So, "`A" (coded as  "\xC3\x80") will prevent the displaying of any string.
Nevertheless, if I just try to display "Some text plus  À and some text
more" it will work.

Now, if I take the original text and do:

*  RawText = RegExp.Replace(RawText, "À", "à")*

yep! it does work.
But if I translate it back with

*  RawText = RegExp.Replace(RawText, "à", "À")*

It does not work anymore.

But if I do

*RawText = RawText & "À"*

And RawText did not contain "À"  before, then it will be displayed.

Amazing.

Any ideas about why this happens?

Regards

- fernando



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