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General / Utf-8 coding problem

« on: February 02, 2018, 08:13:44 pm »

Hi all,
I am Rastislav Kiss, new on this forum. I would like to ask an question about problem I have encountered in SFML.
I am trying to create a simple app, which will show the window and catch all pressed keys as the characters to collect user input.
Window is fine, but the writing part is a problem. My code for events catching looks as follows:

      while (window.pollEvent(event))
         {
         if (event.type==sf::Event::TextEntered)
            {
            textbuffer+=event.text.unicode;
            }
         }

where textbuffer is an SF::String. I have also one method, which retrieves currently typed text

std::string get_characters()
   {
   std::string output=textbuffer.toAnsiString();
   textbuffer="";
   return output;
   }

It works, until I type some special characters of the Slovak language. If I do so, after some tests I found out, that key is catched and represented properly, but conversion to ascii fails. Characters like š, č or ť are not present in result string, although for example ý is represented correctly.
It is a bug in SFML, or just I'm doing something wrong? If yes, can you please tell me, how to do it correctly?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards

Rastislav