Why does not my program convert UTF8 chars? 1

[mrdance]

I have read an xmlfile with utf8-encoding into an arraylist of strings. The problem is that when displaying the characters in a form the utf8 is not converted but in it's raw format. I am using Tahoma as font.

How can I solve this?

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[chiph]

Tahoma is not a Unicode-enabled font. Try Arial Unicode MS (comes with Office).

Also, you are using an instance of the UTF8Encoding class when reading the file, right?

Chip H.


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[mrdance]

Changing to a unicode did not solve the trick. But I made this solution (converting the utf8 string to the current codepage):

Dim encodedBytes As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.Convert(utf8encoding, encoding, encoding.GetBytes(strWord))
Dim bb As Byte
Dim newstring As String

For Each bb In encodedBytes
newstring = newstring & (ChrW(bb))
Next

I can't get it right with japanese characters but maybe I have to be japanese to get it right! Or maybe another font?

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[chiph]

Try one of these fonts:

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html#japanese

Chip H.


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[mrdance]

Thanks, but if I have to have a special font for japanese, then I have to create custom messageboxes, right? Or are messageboxes in an own font?

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[chiph]

Yes, you won't be able to use the system MessageBox class, as it doesn't provide a way to set the font.

Chip H.


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