🚀 go-pugleaf

The VCL limitations aside, you best use your own code to get the Unicode 
strings out the dll.

At least then you have the true unicode strings, without being limited by 
various possible conversions of all sorts done in the background, and if you 
"hand" the result as wchar_t  pointers to VCL AnsiString members (e.g. 
label->Caption = ) you will see that all works nicely, beit that the system 
will have to be setup for this particular language (because of the VCL 
limitation, so nothing to do with the unicode itself or the dll or how the 
unicode was retrieved from the dll)

E.g. :

(PS.
- wstring is from the standard c++ library
- if handle is NULL, the resource is loaded from the exe, if the handle is a 
handle to a dll, the resource is loaded from the dll.
- identifier is the numer of the resource.)

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
wstring LoadString(int Identifier, HANDLE Resource)
{
wstring mystring ;

UINT block = (Identifier >> 4) + 1 ;   // Compute block number.
UINT num   =  Identifier & 0xf ;       // Compute offset into block.

HRSRC hRC = FindResource(
    Resource, // resource-module handle
    MAKEINTRESOURCE(block) , // pointer to resource name
    RT_STRING  // pointer to resource type
   );  // If the function fails, the return value is NULL.

HGLOBAL hgl = NULL ;

if (!hRC && Resource)
    {
    // If not found in the dll, try the built in resource
    hRC = FindResource(
        NULL, // resource-module handle
        MAKEINTRESOURCE(block) , // pointer to resource name
        RT_STRING  // pointer to resource type
        );
    Resource = NULL ;
    }

LPWSTR str = NULL ;

if (hRC)
    {
    hgl = LoadResource(Resource, hRC);  // If hRC is NULL, FindResource() 
failed
    str = (LPWSTR)LockResource(hgl);
    }

// int len = 0 ;
if (str)
    {
    for (UINT i = 0; i < num; i++)
        {
        str += *str + 1 ;
        }
    mystring.assign(str + 1, *str) ;

    // len = *str ;
    }
return mystring ;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Best Regards,
Peter
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Peter Van Hove
CD and DVD Data recovery
Peter@Smart-Projects.net

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