WoWInterface - special letters

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Code:

dkp = {

["Fr\195\170em\195\162n"] = 56.00

}

How can i get This value

dkp.playername doenst work with special letters, can i first convert the playername string to this \170\162 Stuff? to get the right array key?

something like...

Code:

s = Frêemân

local function convert(s)





 return s -- like Fr\195\170em\195\162n

end

dkp.blabla is the same as dkp["blabla"].

For a string value, use (e.g.)

local s = "blabla"
local val = dkp[s]

but when the string value is with special character like é or â then i didnt find the array key because of this \015\102 in it, how can i convert the á into \016 ?! to match the key in the array?!

If we're talking about an in-game addon (.lua) then making sure you save your file as utf8 should suffice for saving and looking up keys without escaping characters.

That is save as [blâblâ] and look it up the same way.

If you have a web interface parsing saved variables, or you need to copy paste from in-game to a web site or some other interaction of the kind, provide more information about what exactly you're trying to accomplish and in what environment :)

Yeah the question here is why your string contains utf8 format instead of plain text. As Driz asked, are you using an external dkp extracting addon or something?

Saving as...

Code:

dkp = {

["Frêemân"] = 56.00

}

and then grabbing the data by..

Code:

dkp["Frêemân"]

If it's a must to where you have to use utf8 then you would want to create a table with all the special characters in it with their utf format and then making a replace/convert function to use that table.

yepp the data format ist only like

["B\195\162be"] or
["Dw\195\161yna"] = {
["DKP"] = 100.00
}

the data comes from http://absence-gilde.com/eqdkp/getdkp.php eqdkp
the old addon "GetDKP" doesnt work, so i codet my own little "whisper to get dkp" addon.

it works fine, (with my very bad code *g*) but the utf8 problem let it only work for normal character names.

Code:

SLASH_DKP1 = "/dkp"

SlashCmdList["DKP"] = function(msg, editBox)

    -- change the text on the editBox.

    print("Du hast "..gdkp.players.Ikuria.DKP.. "DKP")

end



local function filter(self, event, msg, sender)

        split = string.match(msg, " (%w+)")

        if (split) then

        firstchar = split:sub(1,1)

        firstchar = firstchar:upper()

        split = split:sub(2)

        split = firstchar .. split

        end

        if (self:GetName() == "ChatFrame1") then

                if (gdkp.players[split]) then

                        SendChatMessage(split.." hat "..gdkp.players[split].DKP.. " DKP aus ".. gdkp.players[split].rcount .. " gespielten Raids.", "WHISPER", nil, sender)

                        return true

                else

                        if (msg == "!dkp" or msg == "?dkp") then

                                if (gdkp.players[sender]) then

                                        SendChatMessage("Du hast "..gdkp.players[sender].DKP.. " DKP aus ".. gdkp.players[sender].rcount .. " gespielten Raids.", "WHISPER", nil, sender)

                                        return true

                                else 

                                        SendChatMessage("Der Spieler "..sender.. " wurde nicht gefunden.", "WHISPER", nil, sender)

                                        return true

                                end

                        end

                end

        end

        if (self:GetName() == "ChatFrame5") then

                if (gdkp.players[split] or msg == "!dkp" or msg == "?dkp") then

                        return true

                end

        end

end





local function HideOutgoing(self, event, msg, author, ...)

        if (self:GetName() == "ChatFrame5") then

                if (msg == string.match(msg, "Du hast %d+ DKP aus %d+ gespielten Raids.")) then 

                        UIErrorsFrame:AddMessage(author.." fragte seine DKP ab.", 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 53, 5);

                        return true        

                end

                if (msg == string.match(msg, "%w+ hat %d+ DKP aus %d+ gespielten Raids.")) then

                        split = string.match(msg, "(%w+)")

                        firstchar = split:sub(1,1)

                        firstchar = firstchar:upper()

                        split = split:sub(2)

                        split = firstchar .. split

                        UIErrorsFrame:AddMessage(author.." fragte "..split.."'s DKP ab.", 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 53, 5);

                        return true

                end

                if (msg == string.match(msg, "Der Spieler %w+ wurde nicht gefunden.")) then

                        return true

                end

        else

                return true

        end

end



ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_WHISPER_INFORM", HideOutgoing)

ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_WHISPER", filter)

Lua Code:

local function convert(s)
    return (gsub(s, '.', function(c) local o = string.byte(c) return o > 127 and '\\' .. o or c end))
end

someone helped me in private message, for those who search for the same answer

i used the wrong regex
%w finds only normal letters

string.match(msg, "(.+)")

finds the rest ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cirax (Post 271334)

Yeah the question here is why your string contains utf8 format instead of plain text.

If it's a must to where you have to use utf8 then you would want to create a table with all the special characters in it with their utf format and then making a replace/convert function to use that table.

All strings WoW passes into the Lua environment are encoded in UTF-8. Since UTF-8 was created to be backwards compatible with ANSI, any codes within the ANSI character set will be exactly the same in UTF-8. Also, there's no reason to need a conversion function to store these in Lua. Lua supports full binary in its strings, even embedded zeroes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anja (Post 271346)

someone helped me in private message, for those who search for the same answer

i used the wrong regex
%w finds only normal letters

string.match(msg,"(.+)")

finds the rest ;)

The result of (.+) returns the entire contents of the string msg as it matches all characters. I would recommend using the non-space identifier (%S+) instead. Note these identifiers are case sensitive in which using the opposite case returns an inverse match. For example, since the lowercase %s returns any whitespace character, the uppercase %S would return any non-whitespace character.

Lua Code:

SLASH_DKP1 = "/dkp"
SlashCmdList["DKP"] = function(msg, editBox)
    -- change the text on the editBox.
    print("Du hast "..gdkp.players.Ikuria.DKP.. "DKP")
end
 
local function filter(self, event, msg, sender)
    split = string.match(msg, " (%S+)")
    if (split) then
    firstchar = split:sub(1,1)
    firstchar = firstchar:upper()
    split = split:sub(2)
    split = firstchar .. split
    end
    if (self:GetName() == "ChatFrame5") then
        if (msg == "!dkp" or msg == "?dkp") then
            if (gdkp.players[sender]) then
                SendChatMessage("Du hast "..gdkp.players[sender].DKP.. " DKP aus ".. gdkp.players[sender].rcount .. " Std. gespielter Raidzeit.", "WHISPER", nil, sender)
                return true
            else 
                SendChatMessage("Der Spieler "..sender.. " wurde nicht gefunden.", "WHISPER", nil, sender)
                return true
            end
        elseif (gdkp.players[split]) then
            SendChatMessage(split.." hat "..gdkp.players[split].DKP.. " DKP aus ".. gdkp.players[split].rcount .. " Std. gespielter Raidzeit.", "WHISPER", nil, sender)
            return true
        end
    else
        if (msg == "!dkp" or msg == "?dkp") then
            return true
        end
    end
end
 
 
local function HideOutgoing(self, event, msg, author, ...)
    if (self:GetName() == "ChatFrame5") then
        if (msg == string.match(msg, "Du hast %d+ DKP aus %d+ Std. gespielter Raidzeit")) then 
            UIErrorsFrame:AddMessage(author.." fragte seine DKP ab.", 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 53, 5);
            return true 
        elseif (msg == string.match(msg, ".+ hat %d+ DKP aus %d+ Std. gespielter Raidzeit.")) then
            split = string.match(msg, "(%S+) hat .+")
            UIErrorsFrame:AddMessage(author.." fragte "..split.."'s DKP ab.", 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 53, 5);
            return true
        elseif (msg == string.match(msg, "Der Spieler (%S+) wurde nicht gefunden.")) then
            return true
        end
    else
        return true
    end
end
 
ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_WHISPER_INFORM", HideOutgoing)
ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_WHISPER", filter)

works, but the code is little messie ^^ just because of the "ChatFrame5" thing, i didnt know how to prevent the double posts because of same whispers in more tabs :(

sry for my problems here, i'm just learning lua at the moment ^^

I would actually recommend moving your whisper reply code into its own frame and handler. The problem with putting it in with the rest of your filter functions is those functions run for every ChatFrame that has the whisper event registered.

Another problem is if no ChatFrames are registered with the whisper event, the filter functions will never run.