Russian string causing issues

[drtrann]

hey guys,

so I have a rather large and complicated parsing script that has been working flawlessly for the last few months. recently I had a few clients look for Russian support to the parse, well upon adding it, it has caused multiple issues to happen across my script, not just in the function its contained in.

for $i = 1 to $aLog[0]
if $iniRUclient = 1 Then

$aRu_Split = StringSplit ($aLog[$i], "] ")

If $aRu_Split[5] = "в" Then
; post parse procedure
ExitLoop
EndIf
else
$aFirst_Split = StringSplit ($aLog[$i], ":")
; post parse procedure
endif

now my question is less to do with how to fix it and more to do with why the hell this is happening? its been increasingly erratic as of late, seems like every few times I restart the script it works properly, then comes up with a new way of not functioning properly.

edit: note that the B in the $aRu_SPlit is not an english B but a similar Russian character.

Edited February 25, 2013 by drtrann

[PhoenixXL]

What is causing the problem ?

What are you expecting ?

I cant figure out with your code !!

Please post a working script, if it is long enough then a sample reproducer should do it

Regards

Edited February 25, 2013 by PhoenixXL

[drtrann]

What is causing the problem ?

What are you expecting ?

I cant figure out with your code !!

Please post a working script, if it is long enough then a sample reproducer should do it

Regards

hey, sorry that I'm being a little restrictive, I'll try and explain.

there are several things that don't seem to be functioning the way they are suppose to in the script.

firstly i use an INI file to store saved information. this is loaded in an entirely different function that reads like this

func ReadSettings()
$emailaddress = IniRead(@ScriptDir & "\launcher.ini","Version","username","email")
;several different other settings
EndFunc

i also have several things that happen in the ;post parse procedure in the above script.

now everything in the script worked perfectly without the

if $iniRUclient = 1 Then

$aRu_Split = StringSplit ($aLog[$i], "] ")

If $aRu_Split[5] = "в" Then
; post parse procedure
ExitLoop
EndIf

but when added causes tons of issues such as only half of the ReadSettings() function to complete (even though they are entirely unrelated). when the If $aRu_Split[5] returns true it will execute part of the post parse procedure, but not all of it, as if its skipping every few lines of code for no decernable reason

example of post parse procedure

GUICtrlSetData($Edit1, "[" & @HOUR & ":" & @MIN & ":" & @SEC & "] " & "string found, targeting new log" &@CRLF, 1) ;skips
FileClose($logdir) ;it does this
sleep(100) ;it does this
$timerstart = TimerInit()
$found = 1 ; does
$timerfail = TimerDiff($timerstart) ; skips
$wincount = $wincount +1 ;it does this
GUICtrlSetData($num, $wincount) ; skips
failcheck() ; skips
ExitLoop ;skips

again sorry I'm being stingy with the code, but I'm more interested in why the simple addition of a stringsplit could be causing everything to go insane.

Edited February 25, 2013 by drtrann

[PhoenixXL]

Maybe something like this would help

If StringInStr( $aRu_Split[5], ChrW(1074)) Then
; post parse procedure
ExitLoop
EndIf

[jchd]

Which encoding do the users use?

Can you post a complete and working failing example?

[Colyn1337]

Hello!

I vaguely remember one of the MVP's or Dev's mentioning the way AutoIt see's strings. See this for an example:

I believe it translates them all into ascii code and then moves the data around. You may need to convert the letters into ASCII and then load them into variables. See this site for Cyrillic ASCII:

http://www.ascii-codes.com/cp855.html

Edited February 25, 2013 by Colyn1337

[jchd]

Not at all. AutoIt uses a subset of UTF-16 known as UCS2 as string encoding. I.e. it allows users to use almost all characters in most real-world human language. Cyrillic and its extensions are obviously included.

[drtrann]

hey guys,

so apparently at some point the program accidentally activated scite instead of another document and began writing a few lines of gibberish in there that caused the issues with the code. unfortunately it still does not recognize the russian characters in the IF $aRU_Split[5] statement, i can do display array and clearly see the string is there and the statement should return positive but it does not, instead it causes the program to break logical procedure.

the structure is as follow:

While 1
FileOpen($logdir)
FileWriteLine($logdir, "filler that stops stringsplit from crashing if the log doesnt contain what its looking for")
FileClose($logdir)
;unrelated code
LogCheck()
if $Error = 3 then ;string wasnt there so restart with a new log
;lots of unrelated code
endif
wend

LogCheck()

$Error = 4
$found = 0
FileOpen($logdir)
_fileReadToArray($logdir, $aLog)
for $i = 1 to $aLog[0]
$aLog_WS = StringStripWS($aLog[$i],8)
$aRu_Split = StringSplit($aLog_WS, "]")
If StringInStr($aRu_Split[2], "в") Then ; $aRu_split = didnt work
FileClose($logdir)
Sleep(100)
$found = 1
$wincount = wincount +1
ExitLoop
EndIf
Next
If $found =0 Then
$Error = 3
EndIf
EndFunc

now what should happen is that it goes through the while loop and pulls up a new log, adds a filler line to it because it crashes if a delimiter isnt in the log, then does another task that populates the log. from there it goes to check if the log contains a specific statement, in this case it begins with the russian character "в". now if it finds the character in the log, it should accept that it found it and then move on to a new log. if it doesnt find the character, it closes the log and moves onto a new log.

now for some weird reason if it does find the character, it just sits there and does nothing. it just delivers the message that its checking the log and just stops.

out of this 2 questions arise,

1. why would the program just stop at the when the If statement returns true without crashing/failing

2. is there a way to make it so stringsplit doesn't crash the program if the delimiter is not in the file?

thanks

Edited February 26, 2013 by drtrann

[PhoenixXL]

I believe в is not visible in the ScIte and is hence not passed to the program

use ChrW(1074) instead

[drtrann]

I believe в is not visible in the ScIte and is hence not passed to the program

use ChrW(1074) instead

you sir are a god and now my head hurts from slamming on the desk for 12 hours of attempts wasted...

[jchd]

Instead of using the painful ChrW() function everytime you need some character not mapped identically in your Windows 125* charset (ill-called ANSI), international users should really switch their source to UTF-8 encoding and use plain strings like:

$sMyLocation = "УФПС НЕНЕЦКОГО АВТОНОМНОГО ОКРУГА"

$sMyCurrency = "The currency of Russia is the 'Russian Ruble', money is called 'Рубль' and its monetary symbol is 'руб'".

$sHerLocation = "上海市（シャンハイし、中国語：上海市、英語：Shanghai）は、中華人民共和国の直轄市である。"

To do so using Scite, hit menu File >> Encoding >> UTF-8 with BOM

Then make any change to the text (i.e. add space then remove it) and save it again.

Your file now uses UTF-8 encoding and you can insert any plane0 Unicode codepoint in your strings.

[drtrann]

Instead of using the painful ChrW() function everytime you need some character not mapped identically in your Windows 125* charset (ill-called ANSI), international users should really switch their source to UTF-8 encoding and use plain strings like:

$sMyLocation = "УФПС НЕНЕЦКОГО АВТОНОМНОГО ОКРУГА"

$sMyCurrency = "The currency of Russia is the 'Russian Ruble', money is called 'Рубль' and its monetary symbol is 'руб'".

$sHerLocation = "上海市（シャンハイし、中国語：上海市、英語：Shanghai）は、中華人民共和国の直轄市である。"

To do so using Scite, hit menu File >> Encoding >> UTF-8 with BOM

Then make any change to the text (i.e. add space then remove it) and save it again.

Your file now uses UTF-8 encoding and you can insert any plane0 Unicode codepoint in your strings.

unfotunately this doesnt seem to work with stringinstring or $string = "". it would just freeze the script once it found it to be true. sounds like a bug with the IF statement. to get it to work i had to use the ChrW()

[BrewManNH]

Please post the code that you used that shows the problem.