Nostale DMG counter + website

[Bledis]

Hi, we are having Nostale DMG counter injected through DLL which counts some data on raids, total dmg, gold, etc...

When raid ends we are sending data to our website through API in JSON format.

Here is the problem:

Short:
Convert dynamic encoding std::string to utf-8 including special characters like ™.

Long:
JSON is in utf-8 format, so all data should be utf-8 too. All data is stored in variable C++ std::string and to my knowledge encoding of std::string depends on some things that are unknown to me(sometimes utf-8, utf-16, utf-32, windows..., and maybe more?). I tried convert them but with fail, special characters like ™ are being converted to wrong characters in utf-8. Anyone ideas?

Note: nicknames are displayed correctly in DMG counter (DLL).

Some screeshots if anyone is curious how it looks.

[WalrossGreat]

You need to convert those values from your local windows codepage like win1252 to utf-8 before displaying it on the website

[Bledis]

Are you sure that std::string is always windows1252 when on Windows OS?

Is there any good library for this? I tried almost all code from stackoverflow etc... and nothing works in my case.

[Apourtartt]

Are you sure the encoding issue comes from your program and not from your site ? If you try to display an utf8 character on your console, even if the character is valid, you'll probably get some weird result.
What if you try to send to your server something like const char* test = u8"™" or const char* test = L"™" ?

[Bledis]

When I send std::string = u8"™" it works. So its issue with dynamic std::string.

[WalrossGreat]

Originally Posted by Bledis

Are you sure that std::string is always windows1252 when on Windows OS?

No it's not. std::string doesn't have any predefined encoding, it's just array of bytes. Run debugger and see what are the codes of those special characters, then compare it to some codepages like windows1252 and check if it is matching.

[doddo978]

Originally Posted by Bledis

Hi, we are having Nostale DMG counter injected through DLL which counts some data on raids, total dmg, gold, etc...

When raid ends we are sending data to our website through API in JSON format.

Here is the problem:

Short:
Convert dynamic encoding std::string to utf-8 including special characters like ™.

Long:
JSON is in utf-8 format, so all data should be utf-8 too. All data is stored in variable C++ std::string and to my knowledge encoding of std::string depends on some things that are unknown to me(sometimes utf-8, utf-16, utf-32, windows..., and maybe more?). I tried convert them but with fail, special characters like ™ are being converted to wrong characters in utf-8. Anyone ideas?

Note: nicknames are displayed correctly in DMG counter (DLL).

Some screeshots if anyone is curious how it looks.

Hi man, can u share this project with us?

[Bledis]

I might share if I have a good reason.

[doddo978]

Like helping the community?
I see your project very nice and it could help NosTale players to organize marathons talking about the web side