Roku Developer Program

[RokuMarkn]

You may want to post your code and perhaps we can see the problem. This works for me and displays Unicode character U+E5 ("small a with ring above"). Of course the font you're using must contain the characters you're trying to print.

function main() as Void
    reg = CreateObject("roFontRegistry")
    reg.Register("pkg:/myfont.ttf")
    font = reg.GetFont("myfont", 20, false, false) 

    screen = CreateObject("roScreen", true)
    screen.SetMessagePort(CreateObject("roMessagePort"))
    screen.Clear(&h800000FF)
    s = "test:" + Chr(&hE5)
    screen.DrawText(s, 100, 100, &h00FFFFFF, font)
    screen.SwapBuffers()

    while true
    end while
end function

--Mark

[RokuKC]

"gabek" wrote:
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In my case I'm getting stuff out of ParseJSON. I've eventually just resorted to normalizing these characters on the backend as best as I can.

Where are you getting the data string that you pass into ParseJSON from, and do you have an example you can share?

Assuming the data comes from a web service http response, is the content UTF-8 encoded and tagged?

I'm curious what "normalizing these characters on the backend" refers to...
does that refer to using \u escape sequences in the JSON for non-ASCII characters, or replacing them with 7-bit ASCII, or ?

I'm also curious if "tried many fonts" includes the default font, or if possibly there are some issues with specific custom fonts formats.

Thanks.

[sonnykr]

You may want to post your code and perhaps we can see the problem. This works for me and displays Unicode character U+E5 ("small a with ring above"). Of course the font you're using must contain the characters you're trying to print.

I tried ur sample snippet (actually, this is exactly how I draw my text too..) with 2 different fonts. One of them rendered the special character without any problem. However, the second one failed to render. Then I used a font editor and saw that there are no font equivalent to those special characters inside the font file itself. I strongly think that its the font issue.

Thanks guys!