Re: [Mingw-users] Unicode Strings

[Mikael A. <mik...@te...>]

Hi !

This is nothing to joke about ;o)

If you have ever tried to create a dialogbox in MSVC 6 using unicode...

Mikael

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jiri Krivanek" <jirikrivanek@BetaControl.cz>
To: "Benjamin Riefenstahl" <Ben...@ep...>;
<Min...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Unicode Strings


> > Hi Jiri,
> >
> >
> > "Jiri Krivanek" <jirikrivanek@BetaControl.cz> writes:
> > > UNICODE in GCC. What is the exac way the GCC interprets the
> > > following string: L"Kak=E1=E8ek"?
> >
> > Why don't you try it?  Probably it will just extend the orignal sourc=
e
> > code characters codes with zeros, effectively interpreting them as
> > iso-8859-1.
>
> Obviously I tried to ...
>
> Backgound:
>
> My (just for now) favorite GDI+ supports for drawing texts. It
> supports only the wide character strings. More, it does NOT support
> for character sets when constructing fonts. There could be two
> possible reasons:
>
> 1. The american guys who wote the GDI+ did know nothing about
> problems with char sets (as they do not need them for thier american
> english). Partially I am just kidding now, but partially I already
> experinced that americans do not implement support for char sets with
> their SW products (and they wonder when I am complaining).
>
> 2. Second reason could be that the GDI+ assumes using the UNICODE. I
> was trying to locate something about it in my (sorry it is property
> of my company) MSDN library but failed (may be I was not patient
> enough).
>
> >
> > You should be able to use UCNs (the "\u00C3" syntax) for better
> > control.  In C++ this works OOTB, for C you need the option -std=3Dc9=
9.
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps, benny
> >
> >
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