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FirstRoss
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April 15, 2013
Question

PMString constructor fails in CS6 if right quote present

  • April 15, 2013
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The following code works in CS4 but fails in CS6 in Adobe Owl. The right quote (\u2019) appears to be causing an issue in its 8 bit representation (0x92).

WideString w(L"Paul\2019s issue");

PMString sorig = w;

PMString x = sorig.GetPlatformString().c_str();//Failure - GetPlatformString() turns 2019 into 0x92 in the generated std::string - PMString constructor appears to choke on the 0x92

Is this a bug or has the behaviour of the PMString constructor been redefined?

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Nimesis-d4pQ2X
Inspiring
April 16, 2013

Hi FirstRoss,

Try this:

WideString w(L"Paul\2019s issue");

PMString sorig = PMString(w);

PMString x = PMString(sorig.GetPlatformString().c_str());

Regards,

Oleg

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FirstRossAuthor
Participant
April 16, 2013

Hi Oleg,

Thanks for the tip. I know that SetXString can also be used to get around the issue. Since your solution differs from that there may be several ways to get around the problem. However, I am faced with a few thousand cases of the issue and since it compiles AND it used to work in CS4 I'd like to understand why I am suddenly faced with all the work involved to find and fix potential issues of this kind. I also wonder if this is specific to the right quote character or is manifested for other characters which can come in both a 16 bit and 8 bit form.

Best Wishes,

FirstRoss

John Hawkinson
John Hawkinson
Inspiring
April 15, 2013

I've moved your post to the InDesign SDK forum. The general forum doesn't really do very well with C++ queries.

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