utf-8 and string resources

im using cmake to build - carrying around the setup from ciq version 1.something.

i changed the macro used for the pkg builds to to use "monkeyc" a while back to try it (wasnt available form the beginning iirc) but not the one used for the .iq build...

-f was always there but not the java options defined in "monkeyc". if you build with eclipse or vscode everything should be fine

Do you build app using yours own script and you have forgotten to add -f?

Or eclipse plugin doesn't add this option when iq compiles and everybody have to add it?

now i finally made it work :-)

i was using something like

java -jar monkeybrains.jar -f monkey.jungle -y my_key -o myApp.iq -e -w -r

to build the iq file - if i use

monkeyc -f ...

it is working as expected.

a look into the "monkeyc" script reveals it is using the "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" java option which when missing causes the problem described here.

thx everyone for helping.

@Garmin: please mark this as solved as i cant...

23:30 /home/tobi/git/garmin/umlautTest ;-) file source/umlautTest.mc resources/layout.xml resources/strings.xml 
source/umlautTest.mc:  Java source, Unicode text, UTF-8 text
resources/layout.xml:  Unicode text, UTF-8 text
resources/strings.xml: Unicode text, UTF-8 text

since i still cant seem to figure this out i put together a very simple test app and it show i was wrong about this being related to string resources - i also get "?" for all umlauts coming from inside the app (layout.xml, strings.xml or a source file).

Here the code:

using Toybox.Application;
using Toybox.WatchUi;
using Toybox.Graphics as Graphics;
import Toybox.Lang;

class umlautTestApp extends Application.AppBase {
    function initialize() {
        AppBase.initialize();
    }
    function getInitialView() {
        return [ new umlautView(), new WatchUi.BehaviorDelegate() ];
    }

}

class umlautView extends WatchUi.View {
    function initialize() {
        View.initialize();
    }
    function onLayout(dc) {
        setLayout(Rez.Layouts.MainLayout(dc));
    }
    function onUpdate(dc) {
        (View.findDrawableById("text3") as WatchUi.TextArea).setText("ÄÖÜäöü");
        View.onUpdate(dc);
    }
}

<layout id="MainLayout">
 <label id="text1" x="center" y="30%" color="Graphics.COLOR_RED" justification="Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER" font="Graphics.FONT_SYSTEM_SMALL" text="@Strings.umlaut" />
 <label id="text2" x="center" y="50%" color="Graphics.COLOR_GREEN" justification="Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER" font="Graphics.FONT_SYSTEM_SMALL" text="ÄÖÜäöü" />
 <label id="text3" x="center" y="70%" color="Graphics.COLOR_BLUE" justification="Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER" font="Graphics.FONT_SYSTEM_SMALL" text="" />
</layout>⏎                 

<strings>
    <string id="AppName">umlautTest</string>
    <string id="umlaut">Rez: äöüÄÖÜ</string>
</strings>

This still works fine for the sideloaded .prg and in the simulator but if i install the app from ciq store (beta so far but i can publish if anyone is interested...) i get "?" for the umlauts in all 3 text fields.