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Started by Demosthenes May 26, 2002 at 1:45 PM 5 replies 350+ views

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May 26, 2002 at 1:45 PM

I''m curious about the ASCII standard: Are the characters placed in the same places in every country? Is the ASCII index for "a" the same in the U.S. and in Finland, for example? And do characters like "ä" or "ê" exist in every table?

Densun

May 26, 2002 at 1:56 PM

Don'' bother learning that. Standards are too confusing.

Pouya

May 26, 2002 at 2:13 PM

Yes, they are the same codes everywhere

Although ASCII is very limited. If you''re thinking of a good international support you might wanna try UNICODE

Demosthenes

May 26, 2002 at 2:45 PM

But if I''m programming in Windows, won''t only Ascii be supported? Or can I "select" UNICODE as standard?

Pouya

May 26, 2002 at 3:04 PM

quote:
Original post by Demosthenes
But if I''m programming in Windows, won''t only Ascii be supported? Or can I "select" UNICODE as standard?

Of course windows supports unicode

Just go to your project settings and define UNICODE in the preprocessor

Now you have to be careful, you will need to use wchar instead of char (wide characters)
And you will need stuff like T"your string" for making a multibyte string for unicode support

There are a lot of documents on MSDN on how to add internationalization support to your program. I can give you a hint: It''s a bit messy.

Demosthenes

May 26, 2002 at 3:06 PM

Thanks.

Densun

May 26, 2002 at 3:26 PM

quote:
Original post by pouya
Of course windows supports unicode

That depends on the version of Windows.

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