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WriteProcessMemory Accented Characters

 
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Jesper
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:32 pm    Post subject: WriteProcessMemory Accented Characters Reply with quote
Hey, I have a problem with writing accented and special characters to memory.

I have this ReadProcessMemory Call
Code:
WriteProcessMemory(pHandle, (void*)writeAddress, charArray, BytesToWrite, &BytesWritten);


It works fine with normal characters and letters, but if I try to write for example:
Code:
åäö ¬
the result is:
Code:
†„” ª


I've been googling for quite a while and haven't found any solutions so I thought to ask here.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bytes are bytes. It's up to you to interpret them
You need to convert the string to the encoding your interface is using.

Some interesting links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:DOS_code_pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Windows_code_pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

And this is the main reason cheat engine doesn't have better support for non ascii characters
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The text looks fine when printed in the console window before writing it to memory though. Doesn't this mean that I don't have to convert the encoding of the string?
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