[SOLVED] Trouble converting v8::String::Utf8Value to sf::String

[BubbleChien]

Hey!

I've been attempting to convert from v8::String::Utf8Value (which return a char*) to sf::String.

Using a temp std::string with sf::String::fromUtf8 fails.

I'm using the sf::String to feed sf::Text, and while giving the UTF-8 string directly gives the expected extra characters, the result of fromUtf8 shows question marks in squares. The font is fine, tried using a wide string literal and it worked.

Here's what I'm doing at the moment :

JS_RETRIEVE_INSTANCE(sf::Text); // this creates the instance variable
v8::String::Utf8Value str(val); // val is a v8::Local<v8::Value> variable
std::string utf8(*str); // here *str returns a char*
instance->setString(sf::String::fromUtf8<std::string::iterator>(utf8.begin(),utf8.end()));

I'm probably missing some obvious stuff since I haven't really had to deal with encodings in the past, so that would be great if someone's able to help me

EDIT: Some changes in the code fixed it, though I have no clue what did; pretty sure the issue was not SFML related.

[Ixrec]

Could you show a complete and minimal example where you simply initialize some char[]s or std::strings (with whatever bytes you have in "utf8" right now) and then actually draw an sf::Text with it?

Incidentally, I'm fairly sure you can pass a std::string directly to sf::Text::setString() without worrying about the conversion yourself.  It's probably safer that way.

[Laurent]

Incidentally, I'm fairly sure you can pass a std::string directly to sf::Text::setString() without worrying about the conversion yourself.

And how would sf::String know the encoding of the source string? You always have to worry about encodings when passing from one string type to another.