Bug? Complex characters in BBCodeView not working for me

[William Lancee]

[TextSize=30][e=🇺🇳/][/TextSize]

'shows as UN

I am using BCTextEngine version 1.95

 

[Erel]

You are probably using a font that doesn't include this character.

 

[William Lancee]

1. I am using B4J default font = "System" (no bolding, no italics)
2. Your example, newly downloaded without modification, shows the same problem (tested on BCTextEngine 1.94 and 1.95)
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...t-engine-bbcode-parser-rich-text-view.106207/

 

[William Lancee]

Same thing in B4A

 

[William Lancee]

BTW, I don't know why the logo in the BBLabel is not working like the logo in the BBCodeView. Only in B4A

[FontAwesome=0xF17B size=30/] This is a [b]BB[color=0xff006688]Label[/color][/b] [img FileName="logo.png" height=30 vertical=8/]

 

[William Lancee]

I wonder if someone could test the problem in #3. Just download the example in link below, and see if you get a flag.
I am trying to isolate whether it is my system or not.

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...t-engine-bbcode-parser-rich-text-view.106207/

edit: fixed link

 

[agraham]

It's not just you. Your link in post #6 is broken but if I download the example from the link in post #3 I get the same lack of a flag on my Windows 10 desktop using any of Java 1.8.0, 11.0.1 or 14.0.1. On my four android devices it is fine.

 

[Erel]

1. Windows default font doesn't include emoji flags. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...ag-emoji/85b163bc-786a-4918-9042-763ccf4b6c05
2. The UN flag is a recently new emoji so not all Android devices include this emoji.

 

[William Lancee]

Thanks for the link. Obviously I haven't been following this geopolitical discussion.
To be frank, I am more interested in the use of [e=] tag in BBCodeView than in flags.
Is there any other use for the [e=] tag?

Over the years the BBCodeView has grown by leaps and bounds. So, as an exercise, I decided to document all the current features.

I really like the new anchor tag [a="..."]Index[/a] and I am using it extensively in the documentation.
It is completed (about 5 hours, 600 lines of code including the BBCode itself) I'll add the proviso in #8.

I'll post it as a tutorial. May be it will be useful to others. If nothing else it will be a good example for the use of anchors.

Thanks again for the dedicated work you have and continue to put into B4X.

 

[Erel]

Is there any other use for the [e=] tag?

It was added for the flags emojies. Emojies are quite complicated with all kinds of quirks and nuances. The flags emojies are encoded in such way that the parser can miss them and treat them as separate characters. I don't think that there is any other usage for this tag.