Re: WideString to Hexa Decimal Value

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:41

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"bar" <shaikakbar250281@yahoo.co.in> wrote in message 
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> I got a situation, where i want to store a arabic text in the registry.
> If the PC is localized to arabic, it works fine. But if the PC is not
> localized to arabic, when i assign WideString(Unicode) to registry
> key it stores as ???. I tried with String, MultiString Keys in the 
> registry.

'?' characters appear when a Unicode->Ansi conversion is being performed. 
The VCL's TRegistry class does not support WideString at all.  To store 
Unicode data, you will have to use the Win32 API RegSetValueExW() and 
RegQueryValueExW() directly.

> I think the only way is to Convert Unicode WideString to related
> Hexadecimal numbers and store in the registry and read this value
> to display the unicode string.

Not true.


Gambit

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