UserInterface::messageBox and localized (Russian) text

[Alexander.Rivilis]

I've tried to create test add-in which show simple message:

Ptr<Application> app;   app = Application::get();
Ptr<UserInterface> ui;  ui = app->userInterface();
ui->messageBox("Dll загружено");

But instead of russian leters I see abrakadabra:

Is it possible to show non-english letters in text with help of UserInterface::messageBox ?

[liujac · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes, it’s possible to show non-English letters. You need to encode the string to UTF8 which the API supports. The code below should work with C++ 11.

#include <locale>
#include <codecvt>

....

std::wstring ws(L"Dll загружено");
std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8<wchar_t>> converter;
std::string s = converter.to_bytes(ws);
ui->messageBox(s);

Jack

[Alexander.Rivilis]

Dear Jack!

Thank you so much! 🙂

[Alexander.Rivilis]

Dear Jack!

And how to use Russian letters not in C++, but in JavaScript and Python?

P.S.: I'd like to write article in Russian about using non-english letters in Fusion 360 API. So additional information will be very helpful.

[ekinsb · Accepted solution]

In Python and JavaScript there's nothing special you need to do because they natively use Unicode strings.

[Alexander.Rivilis]

Thanks!