Extended ASCII

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danieleghisi's icon

danieleghisi

Is there a way to print in a UI object, with jtextlayout_set, the extended ascii characters (characters from 128 to 255)?
I've tried to pass unsigned chars > 128, but I couldn't manage to make it work (it always prints the relative mod 128 character...)

Thanks!
Daniele

Joshua Kit Clayton's icon

Joshua Kit Clayton

Extended characters in Max API functions should be in UTF-8 format, which uses multiple bytes for extended characters:

If you already have characters in one of the various 8-bit extensions to ASCII such as MacRoman, MS-ANSI, or Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1). You can convert them to UTF-8 with the charset_convert function:

Note that none of these 8 bit extensions to ASCII are actually ASCII, which is a 7-bit standard.