[wxPython-users] Re: wxStyledTextCtrl questions

[Robin Dunn]

kib wrote:

> 
>>> One more thing : I saw that the character "§" takes 2 colums when 
>>> I make my stc show the current cursor position, is that a bug ?
>> The STC stores the document data internally as utf-8 so what you are 
>> seeing as column offsets is actually related to character positions in 
>> this buffer where some characters can occupy more than one byte.
>>
> 
> Ok I see, now in the previous method, the match.start() and match.end() 
> won't give good positions in my current stc if some characters take 2 
> bytes and that's why I get bad highlighting I suppose, right ?
> 
> If so, how can I solve this ?

The STC class has some helper methods that allow you to get/set the text 
as UTF-8 strings, so you can either use those to assist you in working 
with the text, or you can make your code aware of how unicode values are 
converted to/from UTF-8 strings and react accordingly.  Sorry, but I 
don't have any examples for either of these approaches.


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