Re: Unicode

[!smentzer@ecom.net (Steve Mentzer)]

>
>Actually, Windows NT support is still rather sketchy. For example, there is no
>way to create Unicode edit items in the US version of Windows NT, nor is there
>any way to, say, create an edit window in the US version that will handle
>Japanese (one of the languages I was interested in supporting) and translating
>the result back and forth to Unicode.
>


It really depends on what you are using to generate an edit box. Most of the 
time, I found that the standard MFC edit class wrapper was TOTALLY useless and 
cumbersome to use. I wrote a simple RTF edit control in VB and use that within 
my MFC apps. I get loads of custom functionality and it can be used within VB 
as well.

If I remember correctly, underneath the hood of the MFC edit class, lies a 
CString core, which unless I am mistaken is just a wrapper around a standard 
c-style string. wchar_t, and BSTR/_bstr_t aren't used within the MFC edit class 
wrapper. 

RTF edit controls fully support unicode strings.

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