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ChaosX wrote:

>I am surprised that you say that Windoze doesn't actually support Unicode.  Does
>this mean that using wchar in C++ will just bring out some gibberish? I tried
>using a Unicode font in VB and it was very messed up (with most characters
>sensibly converted to squares :)

AFAIK, only Windows NT supports Unicode. Win95 and Win98 do NOT. And VB
is, at best, described as "ready to be upgraded to Unicode". It does not
support it. It only does useless conversions between the Ansi and
"Unicode", simply by converting Ansi bytes to "Unicode" words, i.e. by
adding a zero byte for every character, and vice versa. Actually, it's
lot of crap. Nothing more, nothing less.

See McKinney's rant in "Saying Goodbye to Hardcore Visual Basic" on 
http://www.vb-zone.com/ in appendix B.

Direct URL:

http://www.vb-zone.com/upload/free/features/vbpj/1999/mckinney/mckinney2b.asp#5

> Anyway, I always thought there must be some
>way to use other alphabets in programming Win95.  

Localized OS versions. That's it, I'm afraid, unless you count home-brew
hacks. For that, take a look at HanNet Viewer (HNVIEW). That is a
Big5-to-BMP converter, written in VB3, usingf  their own bitmap fonts.
Maybe these people can help you. I don't know if they still work on it.
(Hi-Tech WorkShop Ltd., Hong Kong).

>For that matter, does DOS
>support Unicode? how about Linux?

DOS? No. Linux, probably. The programs must be written to use it, or
better: compiled using that option. I do know for example that TeX does
support Arabic, Chinese, etc.

   HTH,
   Bart.