Does AUTOIT support Chineese language?

[DRC]

I have been trying to run a application which UI contains Chinese language but not able to record anything. AUTOIT is unable to generate the script when I run record and play method. I am attaching one script example of the application which AUTOIT recorded. Please let me know if AUTOIT support any application with Chinese language UI and if yes then how. Please help.

sample add patient.au3

sample add patient.exe

[water]

Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

Using AutoIt recorder does not lead to very reliable scripts. The recorded script uses Send etc. which depends on the screen resolution, window position etc.
I suggest to write the script from scratch and use Ctrl* functions.

[DRC]

Could you please help me out how to write the script in AutoIT which supports an application made of Chinese language UI. Also is there any tutorial available I can refer to write the script.

[jchd]

Set your source file(s) to UTF8 encoding and write your application as if literals and string variables were english. English, French, Khmer, Chinese or Klingon doesn't make a difference. Just one thing to take care of: AutoIt currently uses the UCS2 charset, which is the restriction of Unicode to its BMP (Basic Multi-language Plane or plane 0) by using only one 16-bit encoding unit per UCS2 character. That means you can't use some string-related functions reliably if you intend to use Han characters located in the SIP (Supplementary Ideographic Plane) which uses Unicode plane 2 (requiring 2 16-bit encoding units per character).

And, as water said, keep away from Recorder.

Edited November 23, 2016 by jchd

[DRC]

Hi thank you for your valuable comment. Could you please tell me where I will get this source file to change it to UTF8 .I have downloaded autoit-v3.3.14.0. Also could you please provide me a tutorial to refer to write the script. Please help.

[jchd]

Install SciTE4AutoIt3 to enjoy many tools.

In menu to set open .au3 file to UTF8: File > Encoding > UTF8

For permanent change of source and console encoding add/change this in SciTEUser.properties:

code.page=65001
output.code.page=65001
#NewFileEncoding=CodePage/UTF8/UTF8BOM/UTF16BE/UTF16LE
NewFileEncoding=UTF8
utf8.auto.check=4

 

 

[Jos]

Just for the record: any new file will be UTF8 w/o BOM encoded by default since the last couple of releases.
This is the same for existing scriptfiles unless a special ASCII character or BOM is detected in the source.

Jos

[jchd]

Jos,

I wild guessed that the OP is using one of the 2-byte asian codepage, like Big5, GB*, Shift-JIS or the like, so his existing sources are likely being easily misinterpreted.

[Jos]

Understood and indeed needs the proper codepage set in the SciTEUser.propertieslike you mentioned.
My statement was just about the last 2 keywords: 

NewFileEncoding=UTF8
utf8.auto.check=4

Jos 

[jchd]

You're right, I overlooked that he said having installed the latest release. I promise to try hard not doing it again, Lord

[DRC]

Hi Thank you all for your valuable comment. Could you please help me out to get a manual to refer to write the script for AutoIT. I really need to write the script from scratch and not sure how to start. Please help.

[TheDcoder]

Hi @DRC, There is a dedicated page on AutoIt wiki called "Tutorials". You might find valuable resources there .

I would personally recommend @Morthawt's youtube tutorials:

Good luck, TD