[fxruby-users] FXRuby and Unicode

[Lyle Johnson]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 2:10 AM, Philippe Lang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There have been posts in the fox mailing-list recently, regarding a  
> problem with european characters with accents, like "é", "è", "à",  
> "ä"... They all appear as squares on the screen.
>
> The answer of Jeroen is:
>
>> When you compile FOX, make sure -DUNICODE is passed;
>> without it, FOX will try to access the system with 8-bit
>> characters; this works for ASCII but not for larger code sets.
>
> Is it possible to compile next version of FXRuby with this option?  
> I guess it is not for the moment, since I have exactly the same  
> problem.]\

Philippe, I will look into this. I was unaware of this problem.