Théophile Rousic-Plantec

I'm currently coding a max ui object and I need to display the degree character (°). When I put the character directly in the string of the snprintf_zero function it works but only on mac. Now I'm trying to migrate the object to windows but my object only prints 0 in place of °. I've tryed other ways like, "%c", (char)248 , but it doesn't work as well. If anybody as a clue I'll really appreciate ;)

Hi,
I'm currently coding a max ui object and I need to display the degree character (°). When I put the character directly in the string of the snprintf_zero function it works but only on mac. Now I'm trying to migrate the object to windows but my object only prints 0 in place of °. I've tryed other ways like,   "%c", (char)248   , but it doesn't work as well. If anybody as a clue I'll really appreciate ;)
Thanks

Théophile


Hi,
I'm currently coding a max ui object and I need to display the degree character (°). When I put the character directly in the string of 

special-character-snprintf_zero

Hi, on Mac everything is UTF8 that's why it works. On WIN, you are trying to print an ascii char in utf8 Max world. You need to use wide chars on WIN (utf16) and convert that to utf8 before passing to Max .

char *maxConform = charset_unicodetoutf8(widechar, wcslen(widechar), NULL);

sysmem_freeptr(maxConform); // !important

Hi, on Mac everything is UTF8 that's why it works. On WIN, you are trying to print an ascii char in utf8 Max world. You need to use wide chars on WIN (utf16) and convert that to utf8 before passing to Max .
        wchar_t *widechar = L"°";
char *maxConform = charset_unicodetoutf8(widechar, wcslen(widechar), NULL);
post("%s", maxConform);
sysmem_freeptr(maxConform); // !important

Special character snprintf_zero()