Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Characters in other languages than english?

[Robert M. <rob...@us...>]

On 13/10/2007, Octavian Rasnita <ora...@gm...> wrote:
> I know that Win32::GUI doesn't support UTF-8 characters and maybe it won't
> support it very soon, but is it possible to use characters in other european
> languages in a Win32::GUI program?
>
> I just want to use the charset ISO-8859-2 instead of ISO-8859-1, or... the
> Windows1052/1050.
>
> Is it possible to do that? I know that I could make a hack and use UTF-8 in
> a Richedit field, but I need to use special chars in menus, lists...

I've never tried this, but I think that in theory if your machine's
default code-page is ISO-8859-2, then if you put ISO-8859-2
code-points into a perl string, then it will mostly work - Win32::GUI
simply passes the byte strings from perl to the windows controls, that
in turn assume that the byte strings represent characters in the
default code page (CP_ACP).

Please let me know if you follow-up on this any try it.

Rob.