Using foreign characters in a tooltip
 

I'm trying to make a custom version of my examine window with a button that searches a Russian site. The tooltip for the button would be
LocalTooltip="Поиск на eq2.playhard.ru"

When I tried that on my US server the characters just looked like boxes but I thought that might just be because the font didn't include those characters. Does the tooltip need to be
LocalTooltip="\rc:Поиск на\:Seach\/r eq2.playhard.ru"
or do you use some other method like forcing a different font with some custom tooltip style?

That is because the default /Fonts.Font_Tooltip does not support unicode characters. However, for all I know, on Russian servers the system will automatically select /Fonts.Font_Russia_Tooltip, which works.

Pay attention when developing for the Russian server btw, they are generally lagging 1 live update behind.

Ok, I ended up getting it to work I think. I just made a custom tooltip style and pointed that at the Russian tooltip font, which was Times Roman something.

Grr, looks like the problem is actually with the search string somewhere. Has anyone tried passing a unicode string with the /browser URI command?

Here's the code that I'm using:
<Button LocalTooltip="Поиск на eq2.playhard.ru" Location="22,18" Name="SearchPlayhard" OnPress="OthURIString='http://eq2.playhard.ru/item.php?name=' ## Parent.Parent.LorePage.Name.Text
browser OthURIString" ScrollExtent="18,14" Size="18,14" Style="/ButtonStyles.find.style" TooltipStyle="tooltip_Russian"></Button>
<TooltipStyle GridStyle="/gridlist.grid_tooltip" Maxwidth="400" Name="tooltip_Russian" TextPadding="4,2,2,2" TextStyle="/Fonts.Font_Russia_Tooltip"/>

And here's a screen shot of what he's getting:
http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/s...0&postcount=44

Hmm, the unicode is definitely getting mixed up somehow. If I enter in the command:
/browser http://eq2.playhard.ru/item.php?name=П
(just one Cyrillic character, Unicode 041F)

The browser gives me:
http://eq2.playhard.ru/item.php?name=%EF%BF%90%EF%BE%9F
Does anyone recognize that type of encoding? %EF looks like the start of a UTF-8 character so I'm guessing that's two 3 byte characters.

If I go to the web site first and paste the character "П" into the search field, the encoding it shows is:
http://eq2.playhard.ru/item.php?name=%CF

Hmm, after some Cyrillic research on Wikipedia it looks like the site uses Windows-1251 encoding.
But that's probably as far as I'm going to get for now.

I don't think you can, conversion isn't handled correctly. Doesn't work on the Japanese server, either.