Display captions in UTF-8 Chinese with Labview 2012

[Valarauca]

I've currently browsered over these sources

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Reading-UTF-8-Files-in-Labview/m-p/792532/highlight/true#M361868

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/undocumented-function-quot-text-to-utf-8-quot/m-p/1034616#M460673

forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Add-quot-Text-to-UTF-8-quot-and-quot-UTF-8-to-Text-quot-to-the/idi-p/1163291

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Support-Unicode/idi-p/921449

Which provide little to no answer.

Basically I need to read a UTF-8 string from a file, and display it as a capation for Front Panel Objects (so that localization can change based on the users language). Is this possible in Labview? From what I've read so far this seems to be outside of LV's functionality.

[Valarauca]

Attached is the VI I'm using in these tests.

This is why I see something like this:

\xC390 = 郂菃

On my US-Eng computer when I tell labview to convert to UTF-8

While the UTF-8  code points I’m referring too (U+00D0 or \xC390) should be Ð not 郂菃

[samazing]

Hi Valarauca,

Unfortunately, LabVIEW has limited support for Unicode and it is not an officially supported feature. You may experience different results on different operating systems and different versions of LabVIEW

With that said, you can refer to this document for more information on Unicode in LabvIEW : https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-10153.

[billko]

And for heaven's sake, be careful with this Unicode stuff.  It can screw up your LabVIEW setup - and all VIs that it touches - pretty royally if you're not careful.  (I think that starting with LabVIEW 2010 it's reversible, but still a pain to undo.)

That's probably why it was never officially incorporated into LabVIEW.

[J-M]

This is what you want?