Display foreign letters

[Factis]

Hello everyone, I want to know how do I print foreign letters?
For example, I got file, which is in Cyrillic letters, and I need to get and write its name, but unfartunatelly I can't, it keeps writing squares.
Do you know how to write in foreign characters?
Please, I really need it.

[bartbes]

If you use utf-8 it should Just Work™, that is, if your font contains those characters.

[Factis]

It does contain it, but when I try to print some of cyrillic letters (string.char(128) returns "A" in cyrillic), it return UTF-8 error.

[raidho36]

Must be issues with font loaded by default.

[Factis]

Must be issues with font loaded by default.

I've downloaded your file, and I can what is written there.

But problem is when I try to get file name which is in Cyrillic, and when I try to display that name of the file, it gives me utf-8 error. UTF-8 error will also appear if I will write string.char(128) (Letter "A" in Russian in correct font)
I need to get rid of that error.

[Boolsheet]

On Windows, the console is using one of the local code pages instead of an UTF encoding by default. In your case, this is probably code page 866. So if you write print("\128") it is obvious that the console interprets that as 'А'. However, the LÖVE API expects you to encode this in UTF-8 which would be "\208\144".

If you have a proper text editor, it should allow you to encode your files in UTF-8 (without the BOM).

The LÖVE API itself returns UTF-8 strings. If you get the file name through love.filesystem, it should work automatically.

[Factis]

But I can't get outside of .love archieve using love.filesystem.
Please tell me is it possible at all?

[Factis]

OK, I've solved it. Thanks everyone who replied here.

So in order to get and print file name in foreign letters you have to:
1. Create a dummy file (and make its name same as the file you wanted to print) in your save directory using standard io library.(E.G. %appdata%/YOURGAME/tmp/)
2. Get its name using love.filesystem.enumerate()
3. Remove the dummy file using love.filesystem.remove().
4. Print the name you get.

Working fine for me! And again, thank you everyone!