DrawHTMLText (8.11) special characters?

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   With 7.x version I used this code to print html code:
  q.SetHTMLNormalFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial {1250}", 0));
  q.SetHTMLBoldFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial [Bold] {1250}", 0));
  q.SetHTMLItalicFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial [Italic] {1250}", 0));
  q.SetHTMLBoldItalicFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial [BoldItalic] {1250}", 0));

  q.DrawHTMLText(left, top, right, text);

And it was working OK, all eastern europe characters were shown. Now with 8.11 version eastern europe characters are not printed OK.

In this forum I noticed that there is a bug in DrawHTMLTextBox function. Is this a bug also here, or should I use different code to do this?

Thanks

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infrax Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 11 Aug 11 Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote infrax Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: DrawHTMLText (8.11) special characters? Posted: 14 Sep 11 at 7:43AM
	With 7.x version I used this code to print html code: q.SetHTMLNormalFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial {1250}", 0)); q.SetHTMLBoldFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial [Bold] {1250}", 0)); q.SetHTMLItalicFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial [Italic] {1250}", 0)); q.SetHTMLBoldItalicFont("Default", q.AddTrueTypeFont("Arial [BoldItalic] {1250}", 0)); q.DrawHTMLText(left, top, right, text); And it was working OK, all eastern europe characters were shown. Now with 8.11 version eastern europe characters are not printed OK. In this forum I noticed that there is a bug in DrawHTMLTextBox function. Is this a bug also here, or should I use different code to do this? Thanks

infrax Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 11 Aug 11 Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote infrax Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Sep 11 at 9:37AM
	Anyone?

Lord Jim Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 07 Sep 11 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote Lord Jim Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Sep 11 at 1:40PM
	You might want to try the 8.12 beta that was released last week. DrawHTMLTextBox does still have some issues, but they did fix a few things.

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Sep 11 at 2:11PM
	What characters in particular are you having problems with ? I tried German which did not work with 1250 but did work as expected with 1252. Is 1250 the correct code page ? It might be worth trying 1252. The 8.11 version is now fully Unicode so you need to pass in the Unicode version of the characters you want to draw. You can also try AddTrueTypeSubsettedFont() which will work better in QPL 8.11. I will review with the QPL team. Now that QPL is Unicode the {xxxx} system would work differently from QPL 7.xx as you have found. Andrew.

infrax Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 11 Aug 11 Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote infrax Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Sep 11 at 1:47PM
	1250 is the correct code page -> east europe. I tried 8.12 version -> no luck. Played with AddTrueTypeSubsettedFont() -> no luck. Tried other code pages -> no luck. I also tried German characters -> they show OK (with 1252). Can you try it with Slovenian ones? -> ššš ččč žžž I'm using C#. As I undestand all strings in C# are unicode so that shouldn't be a problem. Or not? Thanks

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Sep 11 at 3:25PM
	I have confirmed there is a problem when using Slovenian text with the DrawHTML text function. The 1252 Code page is very similar to the Unicode character mappings which is why German and Norwegian ws wroking well for me. DrawText is working perfectly well so we should be able to get it working for the 8.12 release.

infrax Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 11 Aug 11 Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote infrax Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 Sep 11 at 6:06AM
	Ok. Thanks