From UTF-8 encoded xml file to a sf::String

[Sumzary]

I'm working on a game project and want it to be translatable to most, if not all languages, similar to minecraft.

I've got a "Something.xml" with some japanese letters in an attribute:




Currently I am using this code to get a line from the file to an sf::String using TiCPP:

sf::String GetText(const char *_category, const char *_line) {
        ticpp::Element *category = langFile.FirstChildElement(_category);
        std::string lineStr;
        category->GetAttribute(_line, &lineStr);
        return sf::String::fromUtf8(lineStr.begin(), lineStr.end());
}

The result is that the ÕÄÖÜ get shown, but the japanese characters don't:




What should the code be?

[Laurent]

Are you sure that the font that you use to display text has Japanese characters?

[Sumzary]

I am using the same font I used in that Notepad++ screenshot, Unifont, so yes.

[binary1248]

This is one of the few times Laurent can lay back and laugh because it is SFGUI's fault that your glyphs aren't being loaded properly . Some time back, we decided to hardcode the set of glyphs that were loaded out of a font because we are using quite a big unicode one by default.

I don't know what codepoint range your glyphs lie in, but you can experiment by changing the necessary lines in Renderer.cpp.

This is the spot: http://redmine.boxbox.org/projects/sfgui/repository/revisions/master/entry/src/SFGUI/Renderer.cpp#L788

[Sumzary]

Thanks a bunch dude,  I was in a bit of a pinch there!