Using Umlaute in strings

As I am german speaking I would like to add some german text e.g. "fünf" to my clock face.

Unfortunately this those not seem to work.
As soon as I want to write a text using a statement like this:

dc.drawText(x, y, Gfx.FONT_LARGE, "fünf" , Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);

the program just crashes.

If I set the language on my 920XT to German then the menus contain Umlaute.
So it's most likely a programming issue.

Could anyone give me a hint on this?

Former Member over 10 years ago

Have you tried using a string resource instead of hard coding the string in code? Try using something like this:

<string id="funf">fünf</string>

Then in your Monkey C file use:

var label = Ui.loadResource(Rez.Strings.funf);

dc.drawText(x, y, Gfx.FONT_LARGE, label , Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);

For more details on using string resources I would point you towards the Strings sample included with the SDK.

travis.vitek over 10 years ago

Another concern is the editor that you use. I found that the Windows programs notepad.exe or write.exe caused problems when creating resource strings with non-ascii characters. It seemed to work fine if I used Eclipse.

Travis

dpfulg over 10 years ago

Using string resources does the trick.

I am currently using Eclipse to edit my code as well as the resource files. I dont think that this is related to the encoding in the source file.

Thanks for your answers.

Dani

Former Member over 10 years ago

I'm glad that worked for you. I'll file a bug report but it will probably be a lower priority since the string resources are working. Thanks for the report.