Re: VCL and unicode

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From: Andrue Cope [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:52

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Peter Van Hove wrote:

> Are there VCL controls that use unicode and interface with the
> unicode stuff on XP ?

It depends on your application but we used 'ElDOS' components for a
while. In our case we realised that we didn't need to display Unicode
in many places so switched to using TextOutW to a TCanvas::Handle. The
only caveat then is that the font must support the characters you want
to display. Just because a font is a Unicode font doesn't mean that
includes all the possible characters.

I'd like to post an explanation of how this all works but sadly it
would be a very long and convoluted post. The whole issue of 8 to 16
bit conversion and fonts and character sets is horribly complicated.
-- 
Andrue Cope [TeamB]
[Bicester, Uk]
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