Supercollider: Class 'Document' (SCIDE) unicode problems

[bgola]

Environment

• SuperCollider version: 3.11
• Operating system: ArchLinux
• Other details (Qt version, audio driver, etc.): Qt 5.14.2

Steps to reproduce

n = Document.new("n", "é")
n.string.postln
�
-> �
n.string.ascii
-> [ -23 ]
"é".ascii
-> [ -61, -87 ]

Expected vs. actual behavior

Whenever using non-ascii characters the Document class can't really retrieve the string properly, leading to bad unicode.

I didn't have time to understand better what is going on here, but I will try to explore deeper and give more information.

[bgola]

@adcxyz i think this is the reason why non ascii characters break SyncText :)

[adcxyz]

ha, good catch!
Until this is fixed, we can just filter them for SyncText,
or better replace them with some special character sequence like '?'

[bgola]

I found the issue.

In https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/blob/develop/editors/sc-ide/primitives/sc_ipc_client.cpp#L352 it is returning a string using Latin1 when it should be using Utf8 as far as I understand.

[adcxyz]

Great! that should be a very simple and obvious pull request :-)