| from 6.4 to 7.0 [message #58394] |
Mon, 28 January 2008 14:01  |
skymaxwell@gmail.com
Messages: 127
Registered: January 2007
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hello, guys
i have widget application, written at idl 6.4. Now i want to port it
to 7.0.
it's ok ...except string values of my buttons, menus etc in 7.0.
When i run my application in 7.0 i've got bad symbols like
hieroglyphs :((
So what happened with strings in 7.0 ?
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| Re: from 6.4 to 7.0 [message #58499 is a reply to message #58394] |
Wed, 30 January 2008 11:39  |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
Messages: 528
Registered: March 2007
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On Jan 28, 3:01 pm, "skymaxw...@gmail.com" <skymaxw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> hello, guys
>
> i have widget application, written at idl 6.4. Now i want to port it
> to 7.0.
> it's ok ...except string values of my buttons, menus etc in 7.0.
> When i run my application in 7.0 i've got bad symbols like
> hieroglyphs :((
>
> So what happened with strings in 7.0 ?
Nothing changed for strings or widget programs between IDL6.4 and 7.0.
The only difference is the encoding used by the text editor. By
default the IDL Workbench is set to use UTF-8 encoding for all text
files. This works fine for most character sets, especially East Asian
languages. However, it can cause problems for characters in some
languages such as German.
To change the default encoding in the IDL Workbench, go under Window-
> Preferences. Start typing in the word "encoding" in the filter box at
the top of the dialog. It should filter the page list so you only see
the General->Workspace preference page. Select this preference page.
Then in the "Text file encoding", instead of UTF-8, try choosing
ISO-8859-1.
You can also change this encoding for a specific file by right-
clicking on the file in the Project Explorer, and choosing
"Properties". But it's easier to change it for all files.
Hope this helps.
-Chris
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| Re: from 6.4 to 7.0 [message #58577 is a reply to message #58499] |
Fri, 08 February 2008 01:36 |
R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998
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Chris Torrence schrieb:
> On Jan 28, 3:01 pm, "skymaxw...@gmail.com" <skymaxw...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> hello, guys
>>
>> i have widget application, written at idl 6.4. Now i want to port it
>> to 7.0.
>> it's ok ...except string values of my buttons, menus etc in 7.0.
>> When i run my application in 7.0 i've got bad symbols like
>> hieroglyphs :((
>>
>> So what happened with strings in 7.0 ?
>
> Nothing changed for strings or widget programs between IDL6.4 and 7.0.
> The only difference is the encoding used by the text editor. By
> default the IDL Workbench is set to use UTF-8 encoding for all text
> files. This works fine for most character sets, especially East Asian
> languages. However, it can cause problems for characters in some
> languages such as German.
Well utf-8 is pretty fine with German too. Unfortunately older code
before 7.0 was always written using iso-8859-1 -*- and idl is not using
utf-8 encoding.
It would be nice idl can support utf-8 too. A unicode string type on
default would be great. I do like using signs like
↓ → ← ↑ ¶ ß « »
independent from ö ä ü too
Btw. it is quite easy to add a line similiar to this to all of our
scripts. It would be nice the workbench checks such a line and did set
the right encoding then.
;-*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
For the idl shell or the prompt I don't found a switch to set a
different encoding.
cheers
Reimar
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