Re: Unicode char-s on control

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From: Alan Bellingham
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:50

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"Tumurbaatar S." <spam_tumur@magicnet.mn> wrote:

>I'm trying to write my first international app in BCB6.
>It seems there's no way to display Unicode char-s that
>do not belong to any charset/code page (like Windows-1251 and etc).
>The Text and Caption properties accept only AnsiString string, so
>Unicode char-s are not allowed.

As far as I am aware, VCL doesn't support Unicode. Which is another
strike against it, in my opinion.

>Yes?
>
>P.S. VS.NET can display Unicode text on its controls. Is it a .NET
>feature? 

No, so long as you can get the window handle (which is achievable in
VCL, if I remember correctly), you just use SetWindowTextW() rather than
SetWindowTextA().

Alan Bellingham
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