Problems with character encoding in Sahi scripts

edimistra

Hi,

I've had a problem when sahi scripts contains non ANSI characters, like vocals stressed (ej:

pankaj.nith

Hi,

Try using this:

_setSelected(_select("area_tested"),"Administraci\u00D3n - Alarmas"); //can't verify it right now but hope it is the right unicode value

We need to give the unicode values in such cases.

Regards,
Pankaj.

edimistra

Thanks Pankaj,

I researched about UTF-8 and found why the "" characters are printed at the beginning of the script. It is becaused of an UTF-8 variation named Byte-order mark. I hope to find a way to eliminate these characters.

"Many Windows programs (including Windows Notepad) add the bytes 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF at the start of any document saved as UTF-8. This is the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode byte-order mark. This causes interoperability problems with software that does not expect the BOM. In particular:

* It removes the desirable feature that UTF-8 is identical to ASCII for ASCII-only text. For instance a text editor that does not recognize UTF-8 will display "" at the start of the document, even if the UTF-8 contains only ASCII and would otherwise display correctly. It is for example possible to introduce Unicode into an existing computer language and compiler by adding some API for input/output, and use an external UTF-8 text editor when editing text strings. However such a compiler would not accept the BOM, which must be removed manually".

edimistra

I've found it!!

To eliminate the "" characters I used Ultraedit and disabled the "Auto Detect UTF-8 Files" in order to visualize the extra characters and erase them. Then I apply your advise and sustitute vocals stressed by its corresponding UTF-8 values:

pankaj.nith

Hi,

Here you can find a chart for unicode values:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html

Regards,
Pankaj.

edimistra

Thank you Pankaj, It's very useful!!

pankaj.nith

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