Working With Unicode; Enabling Utf-8 Encoding; Enabling Unicode Compiling - AMX NetLinx Studio Instruction Manual

Working with Unicode

NetLinx Studio supports 16-bit Unicode characters. You can type Unicode character literals strings into you program,
assigned them to variables, manipulate them using string operations, read and write Unicode characters to the file system
and send Unicode strings to user interfaces for display.
Select Edit > Advanced > Unicode Edit to edit in Unicode.

Enabling UTF-8 Encoding

Before you begin to work with Unicode, you must enable the UTF-8 Unicode option in NetLinx Studio. This option will
tell NetLinx Studio to store your file as UTF-8, which will support Unicode characters.
Select the Enable UTF-8 Format... option in the Editor - Display and Indentions tab of the Preferences dialog
(FIG. 172).
FIG. 172 Preferences dialog - Editor - Display and Indentions tab

Enabling Unicode Compiling

If you are utilizing wide-string ("_WC...") Unicode sub-routines in your NetLinx code, there are three basic
requirements for compiling:
1.
Check the Enable _WC Preprocessor (Unicode) option in the NetLinx Compiler tab of the Preferences dialog
(FIG. 173).
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