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Compiler always encodes in UTF-8?
Dec 17th, 2024 at 5:40am
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I have a font with europeean characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (ANSI, Windows-1252-encoding). The editor/compiler however, always encode C-strings in UTF-8 so the europeean characters diplays as garbage on the display. How can I tell the compiler to stick to ANSI (Windows-1252) as plain Visual Studio does? The file is saved as ANSI, no UTF-encoding.
Also, if I build the code in Visual Studio Code it works as it should and displays all characters correctly.
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Re: Compiler always encodes in UTF-8?
Reply #1 - Dec 17th, 2024 at 10:41am
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Thanks for the report.

If you save the source file with UTF-8 Encoding specifically the characters should print as expected.

In Visual Studio with the INO file open, click File > Save As > Click the drop down next to the [Save] button and select Save With Encoding > Click Yes to Overwrire the existing File > Select Unicode UTF-8 with Signature - Code Page 65001 > OK.

Then build and upload the sketch again and the characters should be displayed as required.
https://visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=Non-ASCII.html
  
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Compiler must use UTF-8?
Reply #2 - Dec 17th, 2024 at 11:38am
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Thanks for the reply but saving the file as UTF-8 is already tried.
It can never work as the font file is in Windows-1252-encoding with one byte per character.
The compiler encodes the string "åäö" as:
0xEF 0xBF 0xBD 0xEF 0xBF 0xBD 0xEF 0xBF 0xBD 
which is UTF-8 for "replacement character". This seems to point out that Arduino/Visual Micro cannot handle characters above 0x7f which suggests that you have to use UTF-8 (which breaks the code in another way). Strange, as VS Code & PlatformIO performs ok with those characters.
I use Visual Studio with Visual Micro using Arduino IDE 2 or Visual Micro (no IDE).
I'm using a 1.8 TFT display with 
#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
#include <Adafruit_ST7735.h>
which works ok with VS Code & PlatformIO with the .ino file saved with Windows-1252-encoding.

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I also tried with Arduino IDE stand-alone. It works as well. It is only Visual Micro which refuses to understand character codes above 0x7f if not encoded as UTF-8 (which then will not work with the display).
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Reply #3 - Dec 17th, 2024 at 4:52pm
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Thanks for clarifying.

We will release an update in the coming day and update this thread when it is available. 

It has an additional setting which ensures the encoding the file is saved with is preserved through the compilation process.

  
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Reply #4 - Dec 18th, 2024 at 4:07pm
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Can you install the latest release from the top of the below board:
https://www.visualmicro.com/forums/YaBB.pl?board=VS_ARDUINO_EXT_RELEASES

Then if you add a local board.txt to your project (vMicro > Add Code > Add Local Board.txt) and paste in the below entry:
vm.compiler.use_file_own_encoding=true

Also ensure the INO file (and any others affected) are saved with the correct ANSI encoding as desired (using File > Save As > Save with Encoding).

Then if you restart Visual Studio and rebuild your project, the encoding should persist through the compilation process.
  
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Re: Compiler always encodes in UTF-8?
Reply #5 - Dec 19th, 2024 at 8:31am
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Working now but it is pretty ridiculous that you need to add an exception to get a reasonable and default behavior from Visual Micro like these platforms do from the beginning:
Arduino IDE
Visual Studio
Visual Studio Code
PlatformIO


So the "vm.compiler.use_file_own_encoding=true" should really be the default with Visual Micro as well!
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Reply #6 - Dec 19th, 2024 at 1:49pm
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The setting will most likely become default after we have tested with different IO boards. Windows/linux programs and an embedded program have different constraints to be careful of.
  
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