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"Gary Setter" <setterg@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:42f9580f@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi,
> I want to get the Unicode text of a rich edit control as 8 bit characters.
I
> want the Unicode characters converted to 8 bit as if by WideCharToMultiByt
> where the code page is as defined by the RTF control word \ansicpg .
> Currently, when I get the text the non-ASCII characters are translated to
> 0x3F ?
> I tried using the GetWindowText() function and the EM_GETTEXTRANGE
message.
> Is there any way I can do this?
> Thanks,
> Gary
>

Hi,
Some more information. I running Windows 98 and Rich Edit control version
3.0.
What I think is happening is while that version of the control supports
Unicode characters, they expect any application that use Unicode characters
that are not 7 bit ascii, to be Unicode applications. Sadly, my Win98 does
not run Unicode applications.

It seems like a fairly simple thing to support. Define a new message like
EM_GETTEXTRANGE (which has an unused wParam) that specifies a characterset
and character range and returns the text as 8 bit.

If I'm right, please post. Then I can blame Microsoft.
If I'm wrong, please post and explain how I'm wrong.