How to use Cyrillic in your code

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July 25, 2020
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Is it possible to use Cyrillic characters in the Javascript code, for example:

app.addMenuItem({ cName: "test", cUser: "test", cParent: "Help", nPos: -1, 
		cExec: "test()", cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);"}); 
function test() {
app.alert("Привет!", 3);
}

Instead of Cyrillic characters, the function "app.alert" displays a set of characters corresponding to the CP1361 encoding (according to the online encoder).
Does anyone have any experience with this issue?

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Correct answer try67

It works when you run it from the console, but it doesn't work when you place the code in a text file, no matter the encoding (as far as I could see, at least). The way around it is to use the Unicode escape codes. For example, the first letter ("П") in your text can be displayed like this:

app.alert("\u041f", 3);

So you just need to convert your string to Unicode characters and then you'll be able to display it. Not ideal, but it works...

try67

Correct answer

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It works when you run it from the console, but it doesn't work when you place the code in a text file, no matter the encoding (as far as I could see, at least). The way around it is to use the Unicode escape codes. For example, the first letter ("П") in your text can be displayed like this:

app.alert("\u041f", 3);

So you just need to convert your string to Unicode characters and then you'll be able to display it. Not ideal, but it works...

Janus Bahs Jacquet

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Even Unicode escape codes don’t seem to work in the actual menu item name itself. For example, if I want to add a menu item named Funny ‘Item’ here (with curly single quotes), no matter which text encoding the JS file has, and regardless of whether I use Unicode escape codes, it always ends up garbled.

In a UTF-8 file with Unicode escape codes, it ends up as Funny ÔItemÕ here. This – bizarrely – corresponds to what I get if I save the JS file as ISO-8859-1 and don’t use Unicode escape codes, through whatever black magic Acrobat uses to arrive at that particular result…

try67

Community Expert

Works fine for me, using the method described above:

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