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Baz wrote:

> Try this:
>   UTF8String s=AnsiString::LoadStr(MY_DLL_STRING1);
>   WideString w=UTF8Decode(s);  // convert UTF8 to WideString
>   ShowMessage(w);    // WideString version of ShowMessage
> 
> Notes:
> I assume the project is CLX under BCB6.
> Borland typedef UTF8String to AnsiString in sysmac.h (it's the same
> thing).  The ShowMessage(w) will be the WideString version.
> I also add #include <tchar.h> and add _UNICODE to the project options
> conditional defines to allow _TEXT() or _T() macros.

This will only work if the contents of the .rc file are encoded as
UTF-8 in the first place.  If you have an ANSI string and you call
UTF8Decode you will probably either get an empty string or garbage text.

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Leo Saguisag
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