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ChaosX wrote:

> I am surprised that you say that Windoze doesn't actually support Unicode.

What he said is that Windows 9x doesn't support Unicode.  Or rather it supports
it in a half-assed way.  Namely it converts from Unicode to the local code page
and then using 8-bit character strings as before.  (Conversely in Windows NT,
8-bit character strings are "expanded" to wide character strings using the
current code page - for applications that don't use wide character strings yet).

> 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 :)  Anyway, I always thought there must be some
> way to use other alphabets in programming Win95.  For that matter, does DOS
> support Unicode? how about Linux?

No and No.  Only Windows NT and AT&T Plan 9 support Unicode properly.

> With that said, it is easy to input and output data in a certain font in VB
> (just use the properties window), and you can actually manipulate the characters
> to a certain extent from the program.
> Any help on the subject is welcome.