How to send special characters from Max/MSP to Processing?

soneca

How to send special characters from Max/MSP to Processing?

in Contributed Library Questions • 1 year ago

Hi,

I am trying to do something as simple as sending a message, which may contain special characters (e.g. "á", "à", "ão", "ões", ...) from Max/MSP to Processing.

In Max/MSP I am using the object "udpsend" and in Processing the "OscP5" object.

I have no trouble receiving normal characters (those inside the ASCII values, I suppose) with no problem. The real problem is when sending a special char like those mentioned above, which I can't read in Processing. Sending something like "ão" from Max/MSP gives me "??o" in Processing.

I have no problem sending a message with special characters from a Max patch to another one.

I have googled extensively for this issue, but haven't found any solution. What am I missing here?

Thanks for your time.

import oscP5.*;
import netP5.*;
OscP5 oscP5;
void setup() {
oscP5 = new OscP5(this, 6000);
}
void draw() {
background(0);
}
void oscEvent(OscMessage msg) {
msg.print();
}

Replies(3)

philman

Re: How to send special characters from Max/MSP to Processing?

1 year ago

May be have a look to this thread:

https://forum.processing.org/topic/oscp5-string-problem-with-oscmessage

(suggestion only; not sure it will help you)

PhiLho

Re: How to send special characters from Max/MSP to Processing?

1 year ago

Yes, you have to find an encoding fitting both ends of the line. UTF-8 is a good choice for that.

soneca

Re: How to send special characters from Max/MSP to Processing?

1 year ago

@philman: thanks for the pointer. There are some related questions on that thread, but it doesn't provide a solution for my problem.

@PhilLho: Yes. I have been reading about encodings and yes, UTF-8 would be a good choice. What happens is that the OSC protocol uses the ASCII encoding. How can I overcome that? Any idea?

I just can't understand how, even OSC protocol uses ASCII encoding I still can send special characters from a udpsender to a udpreceive in different Max/MSP processes.

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