Unicode characters

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On 19/11/2012 at 07:07, xxxxxxxx wrote:

How to display unicode UTF-8 characters in a menu field?
E.g. I want to display "\u00C5land (Finland)", which display a capital A with a small 0 above it.

I have added # coding: UTF-8 to my python code, but nothing happens.

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On 19/11/2012 at 09:24, xxxxxxxx wrote:

In Python, you just need to put 'u' before the string literal: u"\u00C5land (Finland)". Strings in CINEMA fully use Unicode characters.

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On 19/11/2012 at 10:39, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks.
As always a clear and fast answer!

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On 20/11/2012 at 04:24, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Sorry, not yet completely clear.

The following works:
self.AddChild(MY_1SELCONTINENT, CUSTOM, u"\u00C5land (Finland)")

This works too:
finland = u"\u00C5land (Finland)"
self.AddChild(MY_1SELCONTINENT, CUSTOM, finland)

This, of course, does not work:
self.AddChild(MY_1SELCONTINENT, CUSTOM, ufinland)

What I want.
I read in all variables, for example finland = "\u00C5land (Finland)"
How to display this in my GUI?

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On 20/11/2012 at 05:51, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

This, of course, does not work:
self.AddChild(MY_1SELCONTINENT, CUSTOM, ufinland)

How do you read ufinland string variable? I think you could use unicode() Python built-in function.

EDIT: Ok, I see you have finland but adding 'u' before doesn't do anything because it only works with string literals. ufinland is a new variable. So you should call unicode(finland) instead.

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On 20/11/2012 at 08:34, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Sorry, that does not work.
finland = "\u00C5land (Finland)"
self.AddChild(MY_1SELCONTINENT, CUSTOM, unicode(finland))

It display in the field: \u00C5land (Finland)

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On 20/11/2012 at 10:00, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Do you read Unicode strings from a file? You should then decode them to utf-8:

input = open('unicode.txt')
finland = input.read()
print finland.decode('utf8')

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On 20/11/2012 at 13:27, xxxxxxxx wrote:

I tried following script, but it does not work it still displays:"\u00C5land (Finland)" and not the first unicode character.

coding: UTF-8

import c4d
from c4d import gui

unicode.txt contains one line:

"\u00C5land (Finland)"

def main() :
      input = open('unicode.txt')
      finland = input.read()
      print "finland utf8: ", finland.decode('utf8')
      gui.MessageDialog(finland)

if __name__=='__main__':
main()

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On 21/11/2012 at 00:17, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

I tried following script, but it does not work it still displays:"\u00C5land (Finland)" and not the first unicode character.

unicode.txt contains one line:

"\u00C5land (Finland)"

This is because the unicode file should contain "Ã…land (Finland)", not "\u00C5land (Finland)".
Here's the code I used:

# coding: UTF-8
# If you specify UTF-8 encoding, you then don't need to replace Ã… by \u00C5 in your code
# See string literal below
  
import c4d
from c4d import gui
  
  
def WriteUnicode() :
    utf8_string = u"Ã…land (Finland)".encode('utf8')
    output = open('unicode.txt', 'w')
    output.write(utf8_string)
    output.close()
  
def ReadUnicode() :
    input = open('unicode.txt')
    utf8_string = input.read()
    print utf8_string.decode('utf8')
  
  
def main() :
    WriteUnicode()
    ReadUnicode()
  
  
if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

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On 21/11/2012 at 02:08, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Ok, clear.
However, the input I read from the files uses "\u00C5land (Finland)"
I use the Cinema 4d file \CINEMA 4D R13\modules\advanced render\sky\res\cities.csv
So, how to read that file and display it properly?

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On 21/11/2012 at 04:35, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

Ok, clear.
However, the input I read from the files uses "\u00C5land (Finland)"
I use the Cinema 4d file \CINEMA 4D R13\modules\advanced render\sky\res\cities.csv
So, how to read that file and display it properly?

Ok, I finally found the solution .
We have to decode the string with unicode_escape codec to produce a string that is suitable as raw Unicode literal in Python source code (u'' does this directly with literals).
Here's the code:

finland = "\u00C5land (Finland)"
print finland # Stored as '\\u00C5land' (double escape)
print finland.decode('unicode_escape')

And this code is the same than:

finland = u"\u00C5land (Finland)"
print finland

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On 21/11/2012 at 07:26, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank you very much.
Appreciate the patience and willing to solve it.