Re: NSCharacterConversionException

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 1/30/07, Patrick <contact@pakl.at> wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I am using GNUstep in a C# project.
> When I try to create an NSFont using a NSString that contains the following
> string: 'ＭＳ Ｐ明朝' I get the following exception from the FontWithNameSize
> method:
>
> <NSException: 5fbe018> NAME:NSCharacterConversionException REASON:Can't get
> cString from Unicode string.
>
> I simply have no idea what I should do. Any ideas or hints would be much
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance....

 The name you saw is in Chinese, which cannot be converted into c strings.
 I think there is a matching mechanism between the font name you put in
 and  font file name on the system.
 It may depends on the backend (fontconfig for x11 or nfont for art backend).
 Or an easy way to try is changing [NSString cString] to [NSString UTF8String]
 somewhere in -gui or -back.

 But there is another problem.
 While font name is in Chinese, the file name of fonts may still in English
 since some file systems do not support unicode.
 So again, depending on the backend, you have to try and see.

 Yen-Ju

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