making a non-english dictionary in C??

[palhello]

I am trying to make a non-english version of a dictionary in C..but I am confused in even thinking what should I use to implement all those font of my language say(hindi) and a connection with database with the font of my language....
are there some libraries available??

 

[Salem]

Well the way you represent all those characters is by using say Unicode

> are there some libraries available??
Probably - but it depends on say
Your Operating System - does it support unicode?
Your compiler,
Your chosen database

A dictionary is little more than
[tt] definition = dictionary[word];[/tt]
The database just helps you manage what is in effect a large, permanent array. How you choose to index that array, and what the answer you get back is is really up to you to specify.

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[palhello]

Ok I have searched for some unicode fonts that are available but I still am confused about using it in the windows 98 or dos platform. Are there any good tutorials around for the implementation of unicode.????

 

[xwb]

1) Include _UNICODE in your list of defines
Project/Settings/CC++/General/Preprocessor Definitons. This is on VC6. VS.net it is under Properties.
2) #include <tchar.h> in your code

3) Make sure you use the unicode equivalents of any character routines eg

strlen becomes _tcslen
strcpy becomes _tcscpy
sprintf becomes _stprintf
Have a look in tchar.h if you are not sure
4) Declare all chars as TCHAR. Note that this does not apply to items that are 8-bits only like GUIDs and IP addresses, sockets etc.

5) Surround strings with _T(). eg "fred" becomes _T("fred")

And that's it.

 

[palhello]

but I totally want to make a dos based program because I don't know much of windows programming..how to include unicode in dos.