Unicode.

[Tremorblue]

Hi,

I have an existing application that uses text files to store the different languages.

I store them using the component object name and property

e.g
[ImageRotation Hint]
ENGLISH=Rotation
FRENCH=Rotation
GERMAN=Drehung

Then use GetPrivateProfileString to load the language that the user needs to use. I got through every visual component on the form loading its caption/hint properties.

Now my customer for a long time wants Russian/Chinese.

I found the components from TMS that allow Unicode characters. When I enter the russian directly into the TNTlabel it displays correctly.

My Question - What format should I convert the language file to ... its text - can be unicode or utf8.

Also how can I load that text into the application ? GetPrivateProfileString uses chars

Thanks

Regards
TB.

 

[2ffat]

Which compiler are you using?


James P. Cottingham
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[Tremorblue]

BCBv6.

 

[2ffat]

It runs in my mind that BCBv6 prefers utf8 but i can't find a definitive answer.


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[Tremorblue]

I had to store the file as UNICODE to get it to work.

Then rewrite my routine for loading from ini files so that it could handle wide strings. e.g

WideString __fastcall TFormDeveloper::GetProfilePieceWide(AnsiString aName,char*sLanguage,char *sFileName)
{
wchar_t sTemp[MAXIMUM_PROFILE_SIZE+1];
GetPrivateProfileStringW((WideString)aName,(WideString)sLanguage,(WideString)"",sTemp,MAXIMUM_PROFILE_SIZE,(WideString)sFileName);
return((WideString)sTemp);
}