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Hi Petr,

can you provide some code (sample/source) to the community?

Adib.

Petr Sulla wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:53:30 -0500, "James White" <jamesw@avi.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>1.) What does unicode compliance in a Delphi & C++ Builder application
>>(backend, frontend) usually entail? Is it as simple as a compiler switch and
>>replacing all chars with TCHAR's?
>>
> 
> If you #define UNICODE, the Windows calls are translated to the
> Unicode variants. Sadly, your app won't run on W9x then.
> 
> And you have to replace all your strings with Unicode variants -
> AnsiString with WideString, string with wstring and char with wchar_t.
> 
> 
>>2.) Is there any way to ensure that an application does not use any plain
>>character functions when compiled for Unicode?
>>
> 
> None that I know about. You have to check the source manually.
> 
> 
>>3.) What does it mean when people say VCL does not support Unicode? Does
>>
> 
> That means all strings you can put to the VCL componets are
> AnsiStrings. Forget Unicode.
> 
> 
>>that mean that data-entry in TEdit's etc can only support the basic English
>>character set?
>>
> 
> It supports the character set of the selected active language. It
> supports even multibyte (Japanese...), when you have Japanese Windows
> or W2000 with Japanese system locales.
> 
> 
>>4.) What would you do?
>>
> 
> I wrote my own Unicode aware VCL components, that use ExtTextOutW,
> which works on W2000 and W9x. The text input remained restricted to
> the Windows settings, but is converted to Unicode immediately after
> the user typed it in.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 		Petr Sulla
>