Dropdown ListItem does not support strings with german characters like "Ä,ä,Ü,ü,Ö,ö and ß".

[manfred_weinert]

It is easy to reproduce this issue.

Create the c++ "Command Input API sample" and run it.

You will see the window above.

Now stop  the AddIn.

Modify line 384 of the c++ source Code from:

dropdown4Items->add("Item 1", true, "");

to:

dropdown4Items->add("Item 1 Länge", true, "");

Länge is the German translation of length.

Create a new dll for the AddIn and execute it.

You will see the window above. only an empty line is shown for the ListItem.

Can anybody help here?

Best regards

Manfred

 

 

[MichaelT_123 · Accepted solution]

Hi Mr Manfred_Weinert

Check how Unicode characters are handled on Windows.

Keywords to check are:

• Unicode
• UTF-8
• wchar_t vs char
• std::wstring vs std::string
• codepage

Regards

MichaelT

[manfred_weinert · Accepted solution]

Hello Michael,

the issue was more depending on the incorrect setup of the development environment of Visual Studio 2022.

The following links helped me to fix the issue:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/utf-8-set-source-and-executable-character-sets...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-save-and-open-files-with-encoding?view=vs-...

Regards Manfred