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Application support for special characters

Started by ArthY303 Apr 18, 2011 at 8:23 PM 3 replies 2.3k views

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Apr 18, 2011 at 8:23 PM

Hello! I have an application with a lot of win32 controls, like text fields. The application uses the Multi-Byte character set (I'm using Visual Studio 2008). Can I add support for characters like ? â î ? ? ? ? without switching to Unicode? I would like to be able to display labels with these characters, as well as have the user type these kinds of characters in the text field and see the correct result (at the current time if I try to write one of the characters in one of the text fields I get strange garbage characters).
Oh ... I forgot to mention that I'm using C++.

Thank you.

Anon Mike

Apr 21, 2011 at 1:11 PM

Just switch to Unicode and be done with it.

Saying that you are using "the Multi-Byte character set" meaningless. There are literally hundreds of them, all different. Some will support the "special" character you care about and some won't. This is exactly the problem Unicode is meant to solve.

jbadams

Apr 21, 2011 at 1:21 PM

Is there any particular reason you don't want to switch to Unicode?

ArthY303

Apr 25, 2011 at 2:20 PM

Thanks for the answers.

@jbadams: I just want to add support for a couple of characters (the ones mentioned in my original post) and I want to keep changes to a minimum. Is there any way I can do this ?

TSlappy

Apr 26, 2011 at 1:28 PM

Are your characters in ASCII table?
If so then check appropriate font you use whether font contain these characters.
What type of C++ program is it? Simple Win/console app of some game?

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