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Thank you, all!
Ok, so I can manually or thru 3rd party controls manage Unicode char-s
for the controls. Is this true for database controls? I'm planning to use MS 
SQL2K with
NVARCHAR string columns and TADOXXX controls. Can TADOXXX components
read/write Unicode text?


"Lesley Anne" <mspfila-ng@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> "Tumurbaatar S." <spam_tumur@magicnet.mn> wrote in message 
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>> Hi!
>> 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.
>> Yes?
>
> Even though Text and Caption properties are listed as being AnsiString, 
> you can assign WideString values to them as well, since the implementation 
> of the AnsiString type isn't limited to single byte encodings. 
> Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a way to make them actually 
> display correctly when given Unicode values higher than 0x00FF.  The 
> implementation of the display doesn't seem to have been done correctly.
>
> There are, however, third-party component libraries available to take up 
> the slack.  The one I've heard about the most often (though I haven't used 
> it myself) is TNT.
> http://www.tntware.com/delphicontrols/unicode/
> From the looks of it, you simply replace your TLabel's with TTntLabel's, 
> TEdit's with TTntEdit's, etc. and then you can use Unicode values and have 
> them display correctly, while keeping the ease-of-use of the VCL.
>
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