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Andrue,

Thanks for the response.  I am having to internationalize a very large
existing Builder app.  I should be able to read Unicode strings from a
language specific dll to populate all Captions, Labels, Menus etc. So as far
as your question regarding "how often do I need to display Unicode strings?"
The answer is Plenty! In the hundreds. The other, and potentially much
bigger problem is database access.  My program generates reports with data
placed into an SQL Server database by other programs written by others on
the team in VC.  I most likely will have to read at least some strings out
of the db that are Unicode such as info for report headers like "Work
Order",  "Customer Name", "Location" etc.

I just wrote a small app to play with and converted a small existing
database to Access and modified the Work Order field to some Chinese Unicode
chars. (BTW - there are several Chinese programmers here).  In access the
string is fime.  Using Tnt components, I can display the data in a
TntDBGrid, TntEdit and TntMemo.  Those MIGHT work for me, but I have to
create Queries based on some of the fields read such as finding all records
where the WorkOrder field = "Whatever".  SO now I would have an AnsiString
part of the query and a unicode part.

How is THAT gonna work???

I have a feeling this is going to be painful!

Thanks again,
Kev

"Andrue Cope [TeamB]" <no.spam@not.a.valid.address> wrote in message
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> kev wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Definately not. The entire area of language support is horrendously
> complex and convoluted. I'll add that although I have had to play with
> it and have a level of understanding I am not an expert. My colleague
> knows more about it (he had wrote our own codepage conversion module)
> but even he gets confused.
>
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> How often do you need to display Unicode strings? We were lucky in that
> we only needed to do that in a couple of cases. We were able to use
> TextoutW() to the component's canvas.
> -- 
> Andrue Cope [TeamB]
> [Bicester, Uk]
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