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Well, that pretty much sucks.  I am the only BCB programmer here among a
bevy of VC programmers.  I have to write my application within the guide
lines of the project.  The current project MUST be unicode compatible.  The
language DLL that I must use is created in unicode in VC and must interface
with files gererated by others' unicode programs.

I DO have the siLang components and have been trying them.  That is an
option, but I am having a terrible time getting them to work as advertised,
but even so that puts me outside of my project guidelines to use the before
mentioned DLL.  My program will be running, concurrently with others on the
same client machine.  Having to set up the machine specifically for my
program would not fly (ie -Locale, codepages, check box for "Non-Unicode"
programs etc) as it may interfere with their programs.

I don't particularly care if the characters show correctly in the editor or
debugger as long as I can get them to show correctly in the .exe  when run.

It should be a simple matter of UNICODE or !UNICODE, but as I look at the
user groups, I can see that it is not.  Can I not use the -WU parameter and
other UNICODE settings that I have managed to dig up from newsgroup posts?

BTW, the program I am working on has already been created and shipped in
non-unicode form, but now has to be "converted" for the next release.

If there is ANY way to use Unicode I MUST do so! Any other tips are very
much appreciated.

thanks,
Kev

"Andrue Cope [TeamB]" <no.spam@not.a.valid.address> wrote in message
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> kev wrote:
>
> > I amtrying to read and dispay as captions Unicode strings from a DLL.
> > I am having trouble getting this to work.
>
> I notice you are loading "Chinese.dll" and I think that could be a
> problem for you. Chinese has far too many characters for the VCL (which
> uses UTF-8) to display. Even if a machine is configured to support the
> correct codepages I'm pretty sure that the results will be poor. For
> most letter based languages a codepage can be created with a dedicated
> set of language specific characters to complete the required alphabet.
> For Chinese I don't think this is possible.
>
> I think you would do better to look at something like the SiComponents
> TSiLang suite:
>
> http://www.sicomponents.com/tsilang1.html
>
> -- 
> Andrue Cope [TeamB]
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