[SOLVED] font.getWidth and Umlauts

[Germanunkol]

I'm having troubles with font.getWidth(). It crashes when it reaches an umlaut:

My code:

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buttonFont = love.graphics.newFont( 18 )
function love.load(arg)
	titleStr = ""
	fullTitle = "schrödinger"
	buttonFont:getWidth( fullTitle )
	j = 0
	while buttonFont:getWidth( titleStr ) < buttonWidth-20 and #titleStr < #fullTitle do
		print(titleStr.. " " .. buttonFont:getWidth( titleStr ))
		titleStr = fullTitle:sub( 1, j )
		print("new: " .. titleStr)
		j = j+1
	end
end

Output:

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 0
new: 
 0
new: s
s 8
new: sc
sc 17
new: sch
sch 28
new: schr
schr 36
new: schr
Error: main.lua:62: Not enough space
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'getWidth'
	main.lua:62: in function 'load'
	[string "boot.lua"]:378: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:373>
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'

What does "not enough space" mean? Am I doing something wrong?
Can someone confirm this? Is it an engine-bug?

Thanks...

[Boolsheet]

"Not enough space" is an exception thrown by the UTF-8 library used by LÖVE. This can happen when the library encouters an unfinished UTF-8 string. In this case, you chop the UTF-8 code for 'ö' which uses 2 bytes in half with fullTitle:sub( 1, j ). The library sees the first byte and expects another, but is already at the end of the string and throws.

Or something like that anyway. One would expect a "Invalid UTF-8" message here.

Make sure you chop UTF-8 strings a the right places if you want to split them up.

[Robin]

From the Lua users wiki:

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for uchar in string.gfind(ustring, "([%z\1-\127\194-\244][\128-\191]*)") do
  -- something
end

It might be useful to write a function for that:

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function utf8iter(str)
    return str:gfind("([%z\1-\127\194-\244][\128-\191]*)")
end

Use it like:

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buttonFont = love.graphics.newFont( 18 )
function love.load(arg)
   titleStr = ""
   fullTitle = "schrödinger"
   for char in utf8iter(fullTitle) do
      titleStr = titleStr .. char
      if buttonFont:getWidth( titleStr ) < buttonWidth-20 then
          print(titleStr.. " " .. buttonFont:getWidth( titleStr ))
      else
          break
      end
   end
end

[Germanunkol]

Perfect, thank you both!
It works like a charm, using gfind.