Unicode compliant?

[billybobk]

I created an app that picks up names from a table and displays them in a combobox BUT WAIT! 'Johannes Hoek' (with the umlat over the e) shows in the box as 'Johannes Ho+k'. Looks like a unicode issue. Can VB apps be set to be unicode-compliant? Thanks!

--Bill
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night
--Kahlil Gibran

 

[chiph]

The internal parts of VB do indeed use UTF-16 (UCS-2) Unicode. But the forms engine within VB6 and the code inspector window in the debugger only support ANSI. So you'll see that sort of thing -- you successfully read a value from a NVARCHAR field in the database, and can send it to the NT Event log, a flat-file, Web page, etc. But you try and display it in a form and it ends up mangled.

If you want full Unicode support, you'll have to switch to Java or .NET, sorry.

Chip H.

 

[szmgg]

Use Forms2.0 (Project/Components (CTRL-T)).
It may help you.