Lua and utf8

[gring]

Hi,

Stumpled upon some problems with the way CEGUI handles string conversion to lua, which causes us some issues in our project. But the real problem is ofcourse that Lua doesn't handle unicode.

Today when you get a text from let's say an editbox or any widget. You get it as a utf8 encoded string. Then when you set this text to another control it's assumed to be a std::string non utf8 encoded.

So if you enter some characters in the editbox that will become encoded in utf8. Then you get double characters in the new control.

I don't have a straight forward solution to this. Cause of projects being unicode and non unicode. Still it would be much more consistant to treat all strings to and from lua as utf8 and have a special assign method for non utf8 strings (i.e. std::string).
The drawback with this is it's not so good for non-unicode projects to make a solution, where they would have to use some special method to assign strings, which would be unfortunate. I don't mind to treat all std::strings as unicode, are there any better ways around this?

/Gring

[CrazyEddie]

Hi,

Thanks for drawing attention to this - I can see how it could be a pain! Having said this, I also do not have an immediate solution that would be ideal.

I'll continue to think about this, maybe look some things up, and perhaps come up with something over the weekend. In the mean time, if any one has any good ideas, please feel free to submit them here

CE.