copytoclipboard with special characters

[Mr H. 400]

Hi! I'm having some trouble with copytoclipboard and special accentuated characters (for French in my case).
I need to copy paste strings with these special characters from the game into the clipboard.

But the following happens:

 

copytoclipboard "Général";

will return when pasting into a file :

Général

setting the file to be in UTF8 doesn't change a thing when pasting.

For the record my game is installed in English (and I'd like to keep it that way).

Any ideas? Workarounds?

[Dedmen 2588]

https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/desktop/dataxchg/standard-clipboard-formats

Arma uses CF_TEXT which is ascii only but it puts UTF-8 chars into it.

 

Copying from a "Edit" control with CTRL+C should be unicode. You could try that. Although then the user has to copy manually.

[Mr H. 400]

That's exactly what I ended up doing... Thanks!

[killzone_kid 1326]

copytoclipboard str toarray "Général";
tostring parsesimplearray copyfromclipboard

[Dedmen 2588]

1 hour ago, killzone_kid said:

tostring parsesimplearray copyfromclipboard

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On 2/17/2019 at 5:46 PM, Mr H. said:

when pasting into a file

 

 

I'd say turning it into an array of numbers doesn't help if he wants to export stuff from the game into a file.

[Mr H. 400]

My script generates config files. I won't be home in the next few days but I will try your solution when I'm back.

[killzone_kid 1326]

well if you

• select Encoding->Encode in ANSI in notepad ++
• paste your clipboard
• select Encoding->Encode in UTF-8

it shows correct characters