"Not enough space" error when printing a string

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FloatingBanana
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"Not enough space" error when printing a string

Post by FloatingBanana »

I'm making something like Undertale dialogs, and my code is basically this:

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local step = 0
local text = "this is a random text"

function love.load()
    love.graphics.setNewFont(30)
end

function love.update(dt)
    step = math.min(step + 20 * dt, #text)
end

function love.draw()
    local sub = string.sub(text, 1, step)

    love.graphics.print(sub, 100, 100)
end
When I run this code it works perfectly, but if the text has any special characters, for example:

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local step = 0
local text = "this is á random text"

function love.load()
	love.graphics.setNewFont(30)
end

function love.update(dt)
	step = math.min(step + 20 * dt, #text)
end

function love.draw()
	local sub = string.sub(text, 1, step)
	
	love.graphics.print(sub, 100, 100)
end
I get this error:

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Error

main.lua:15: UTF-8 decoding error: Not enough space


Traceback

[C]: in function 'print'
main.lua:15: in function 'draw'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
Does anyone know how to solve this?

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if anyMistake(self.english) then
    print("Sorry, english is not my first language")
end
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Re: "Not enough space" error when printing a string

Post by raidho36 »

What you experience is that a multibyte UTF-8 character gets cut into pieces and this corrupts the input stream. That's because Lua operates on binary strings, not UTF-8 multibyte character strings. There's a built-in module for handling UTF-8.
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Re: "Not enough space" error when printing a string

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raidho36 wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 10:54 pm There's a built-in module for handling UTF-8.
I had already used the utf8 library, I tried this:

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local utf8 = require "utf8"

local step = 0
local text = "this is á random text"
local offset = utf8.offset(text, -1)

function love.load()
	love.graphics.setNewFont(30)
end

function love.update(dt)
	step = math.min(step + 20 * dt, offset)
end

function love.draw()
	local sub = string.sub(text, 1, utf8.offset(text, step))
	
	love.graphics.print(sub, 100, 100)
end
...and I got the same error.

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if anyMistake(self.english) then
    print("Sorry, english is not my first language")
end
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Re: "Not enough space" error when printing a string

Post by pgimeno »

Don't ask me why, but adding - 1 like below worked for me:

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local sub = string.sub(text, 1, utf8.offset(text, step) - 1)
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Re: "Not enough space" error when printing a string

Post by YounYokel »

Guys why doesn't this work?

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str = [[Popiš památku je název soutěže pro nové i zkušené wikipedisty, která se koná od 15. 
ledna do 15. února 2020, tedy jeden měsíc. Aktuální, již třetí ročník soutěže pořádá opět 
spolek Wikimedia Česká republika. Partnerem soutěže je portál PROPAMÁTKY.]]

local utf8 = require('utf8')

function love.draw()
   love.graphics.printf(utf8.sub(str, 1, 50), 16, 16, love.graphics.getWidth() - 16)
end
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Re: "Not enough space" error when printing a string

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YounYokel wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:12 pm Guys why doesn't this work?
Checking the reference manual, i didn't see any utf8.sub function there.
( http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.5 - löve implements this itself fully as its own utf-8 lib)

Also, shouldn't step be math.floor-ed? at some point? not sure if it's a good idea to pass in math.min(step + 20 * dt, offset) into utf8.offset...

The minus one thing might be an off-by-one issue, depending on how string.sub actually indexes the string
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Re: "Not enough space" error when printing a string

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zorg wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:44 pm
YounYokel wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 6:12 pm Guys why doesn't this work?
Checking the reference manual, i didn't see any utf8.sub function there.
( http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#6.5 - löve implements this itself fully as its own utf-8 lib)

Also, shouldn't step be math.floor-ed? at some point? not sure if it's a good idea to pass in math.min(step + 20 * dt, offset) into utf8.offset...

The minus one thing might be an off-by-one issue, depending on how string.sub actually indexes the string
Yeah, you're right. Using string.sub() works... sometimes.
I tried using this function which simply deletes the part of a string from i to j:

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function string_delete(s, i, j)
	return (string.sub(s, 1, i - 1) .. (j ~= nil and string.sub(s, i + j) or string.sub(s, i + 1)))
end

function love.draw()
   love.graphics.printf(string_delete(str, 5, 10), 16, 16, love.graphics.getWidth() - 16)
end
Weird that I didn't work with Russian or any other symbols but works with standard English symbols.

Does anyone know why doesn't it work?
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Re: "Not enough space" error when printing a string

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I insist that you head over to Wikipedia and study carefully the article about UTF-8 encoding.
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Re: "Not enough space" error when printing a string

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raidho36 wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:26 am I insist that you head over to Wikipedia and study carefully the article about UTF-8 encoding.
Weird that other function does work which inserts a string in given position works which is almost the same.
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Re: "Not enough space" error when printing a string

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YounYokel wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2020 6:44 am
raidho36 wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:26 am I insist that you head over to Wikipedia and study carefully the article about UTF-8 encoding.
Weird that other function does work which inserts a string in given position works which is almost the same.
I'm pretty sure inserting to an index that would be between two bytes of a multibyte character would also break.
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