Only use UTF-8 chars

[PoloNX]

I'm porting ftxui on nintendo switch but the terminal is very basic and doesn't support unicode chars. Is there a way to only use UTF-8 ?

[ArthurSonzogni]

Hello!

ftxui on nintendo switch

Lol. I wouldn't have imagined someone would do it. 🤣
Does the switch offers a terminal?

Is there a way to only use UTF-8 ?

Always as been.

For instance, you can see I had to use a specific option for MSVC compiler, because it is only the default on clang/gcc:

FTXUI/cmake/ftxui_set_options.cmake

Lines 46 to 50 in 55af678

	# Force Microsoft Visual Studio to decode sources files in UTF-8. This applies
	# to the library and the library users.
	if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "MSVC")
	target_compile_options(${library} PUBLIC "/utf-8")
	endif()

Maybe the compiler you are using does need some specific option?

Or, maybe you mean using ascii symbols instead of unicode? In this case, nothing builtin at the moment. I only have the FTXUI_MICROSOFT_TERMINAL_FALLBACK for Microsoft terminal to remove unsupported characters and "mitigate" bugs in Microsoft terminals.

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Maybe you can shre additional information about your setup?