[wxPython-users] Styling in an STC editor

[Josiah Carlson]

Torsten Bronger <bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hallöchen!
> 
> I do my own syntax highlighting in an wx.py.editor.EditWindow.  For
> achieving this, I say in my source
> 
> ...
>         text = self.GetTextRange(start, end)
>         print len(text), end-start
> 
> If the text contains some umlauts, this prints on the screen
> 
>         1111 1123
> 
> Consequently, the highlighting is broken.  An .encode("utf-8") after
> the GetTextRange() solves the issue, however, I wonder why this is,
> and whether utf-8 is always correct, independent of the locale.

As per the documentation on scintilla.org, the StyledTextControl uses
utf-8 as an underlying data representation.  So yes, text.encode('utf-8')
will generally produce correct results, regardless of locale.

You should, however, be careful of line endings.  I can't remember off
the top of my head everything, but I seem to remember that there was
something quite annoying with the way line endings were handled in the
stc.  Always 2 characters?  Always 1 character?  2 characters on Windows,
1 on Linux?  Do some investigation.

 - Josiah