00529_UTF-8.mdown

UTF-8

Shoes expects all strings to be in UTF-8 format.

UTF-8 Everywhere
http://help.shoooes.net/Rules.html

# sample45.rb
Shoes.app :width => 200, :height => 115 do
  background darkred..darkslategray, :angle => 90
  para IO.read('hello_wold_utf8.txt'), :font => "MS UI Gothic", :stroke => white
end

sample45.png

sample45-1.png

This Japanese text editor uses UTF-8.

Policeman

The sample45.rb worked well with Shoes-0.r1263