[SDL] Unicode wm caption

will willeom at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 20:18:03 PST 2008


Ryan C. Gordon <icculus <at> icculus.org> writes:

> 
> 
> > Sam, can Unicode caption support be made as an optional compilation switch in
a
> > future release?
> 
> In theory, you should always be giving SDL strings in UTF-8 encoding, 
> and it will deal with making them "Unicode" behind the scenes (or 
> dithering them to the correct codepage--or maybe just '?' chars--for 
> win9x systems.
> 
> It's possible that we don't handle this correctly for window captions on 
> Win32, though and are using the "Ansi" win32 entry point...if that's the 
> case, it's a bug and we'll fix it.
> 
> --ryan.
> 

Hey Ryan. I think I might be using the ANSI win32 entry point because when I run
my application on Vista SDL converts all non ASCII UTF-8 characters into a '?'. 
BTW is ANSI the default when building SDL via MinGW and Msys on Vista? If so, is
there an easy way switch to Unicode?

Thanks!
    --Bill 







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