On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:09 +0200, deloptes wrote: > 3rdShift wrote: > > > Both Gtk::Label and Gtk::TextView support Pango markup which gives you > > more then enough to accentuate your text. > > > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html > > > > A question rises here: this pango link is for C
The link provides authoritative information about using the pango markup language so it will still be useful if you're coding in C++. The pangomm docs can be reached from the library.gnome.org C++ section: http://library.gnome.org/devel/references#c++-bindings > also gtkmm docs state > something I'm not sure is true. > > "One of the benefits of UTF-8 is that you don't need to use it unless you > want to, so you don't need to retrofit all of your code at once. > std::string will still work for 7-bit ASCII strings. But when you try to > localize your application for languages like Chinese, for instance, you > will start to see strange errors, and possible crashes. Then all you need > to do is start using Glib::ustring instead. > > Note that UTF-8 isn't compatible with 8-bit encodings like ISO-8859-1. For > instance, German umlauts are not in the ASCII range and need more than 1 > byte in the UTF-8 encoding. If your code contains 8-bit string literals, > you have to convert them to UTF-8 (e.g. the Bavarian greeting "Grüß Gott" > would be "Gr\xC3\xBC\xC3\x9F Gott")." > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtkmm-tutorial/unstable/sec-basics-ustring.html.de The point of the docs is to explain the differences between UTF-8 (which is a multi-byte encoding) and single-byte encodings. > > I think currently most systems are utf and are using (8bit) utf by default > and I have never had to think about it in the past few years. > about 5years ago it was a nightmare What about systems not using UTF-8? Windows systems? > > ---------- > example : cat test.cc > > #include <string> > #include <iostream> > using namespace std; > > int main () { > string a = "Test ascii"; > string b = "Grüß Gott!"; > > cout << "A test: " << a << endl; > cout << "German: " << b << endl; > return 0; > } > > ./a.out > A test: Test ascii > German: Grüß Gott! On Windows (using MinGW), the output is garbled: $ ./a A test: Test ascii German: Grⁿ▀ Gott! -- José _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
