String rendering issue

General JUCE discussion
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I’m having a strange issue with rendering UTF8 special characters.
They do render correctly, but when I use certain ones, any character following a space is not drawn.

        g.drawFittedText(CharPointer_UTF8("ø Test"), text_area.toNearestIntEdges(), Justification::left, 1, 1.0);
        g.drawFittedText(CharPointer_UTF8("ū Test"), text_area.toNearestIntEdges(), Justification::right, 1, 1.0);

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Does anyone know what I can do about this? Many thanks!

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FYI this is in JUCE 7, I’ve just tested in JUCE 8 and it seems to be fixed.

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Just stumbled across this, and I see it in several places in the juce forum. I think a string literal is missing here.

g.drawFittedText(CharPointer_UTF8("ø Test")...

instead use

g.drawFittedText(CharPointer_UTF8(u8"ø Test")...

I don’t know if that was the original error, but it would be nice if the CharPointer_UTF8constructor would “jassert” if it includes invalid characters.

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Unfortunately even u8"ø Test" won’t work in all cases, as u8 only refers to the execution character set not the source character set. Generally speaking I don’t recommend using any non-ASCII literals in source code. More information here Technical Deep Dive: Unicode Literals - JUCE.

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