It's been a while since I've done stuff in wxPerl but I'm absolutely sure I could display unicode characters without problems. What do you mean exactly when you say unicode? What is the used encoding? UTF-8?
Here are some ideas: - Did you test Mattia's suggestion? Unicode and databases are known to cause weird troubles that are hard to identify - Try creating a test app and let it read from a test textfile of which you are sure that it's UTF-8 encoded ( maybe even create it with something like open(my $fh, ">:encoding(UTF-8)", "test.txt") - As you mentioned in another reply, font can most definitely be a culprit. Lots of (older) fonts can't display characters beyond the ascii or latin-1 set. Don't ditch wxPerl yet. It really is a powerful versatile toolset. Cheers, Huub On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:53 PM, perltk wrote: > Has anyone got any ideas? Unfortunately, this isn't an inconvience for us - > this > is a show stopper. > > Trying to move off perltk and the new Guis are looking good, but if we can > not display > unicode characters wxperl is dead for us :-( > > > On 8/4/2010 8:16 AM, Mattia Barbon wrote: >> perltk wrote: >>> I have an app that is reading from a database. Some of the names >>> include unicode characters: >>> >>> Heres are some print statement output when running app: >>> >>> > perl uwi_flip.pl >>> Well ==> HENW_Letebr?nner >>> >>> > perl -C uwi_flip.pl >>> Well ==> HENW_Letebrønner >>> >>> Any names with these characters in them do not display in widgets - they >>> are blank. >>> No errors, just blank. The wxwidgets .so should be unicode. >> >> Yes, they are. >> >>> What am I missing ????? >> >> Are you sure that the strings you read from the database have the Unicode >> flag set when read from the database? You can use the Dump() function from >> Devel::Peek to check if the scalar has the Unicode bit set. >> >> If the Unicode bit is not set on the scalar, the conversion from Perl >> scalar to wxString should use the encoding of your current locale, but I >> can't remember if if uses the system locale or (more likely) the locale set >> with wxLocale. >> >> HTH, >> Mattia >> >
