Re: Common Controls and UNICODE support problem

From:
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:06:11 -0800
Message-ID:
<Dvqhj.38226$Pv2.20444@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>
"Olivier" <toon@toonworld.com> wrote in message
news:eQdxmJ3UIHA.5264@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Hello,

Our product is compiled in UNICODE (using VS C++ 6.0 + PSDK Feb.2003,
Windows XP US + french MUI)

For some languages (like Polish) we have a very strange problem:

Text:

Pamiec podreczna na czesci

Or, as byte sequence:

_T(
"\x0050\x0061\x006D\x0069\x0119\x0107\x0020\x0070\x006F\x0064\x0072\x0119\x0063\x007A\x006E\x0061"
 )

In the UI (for instance in a dialog box), the same Polish texte appears to
be displayed correctly and incorrectly, i.e. some characters (like e) are
replaced by a vertical bar |

We found that the problem seems to appear only inside some controls like
CTreeCtrl (on tree item) and CComboBox (on list item).
All other controls (CStatic, CEdit, GroupBox, window title and so on...)
display correctly the same text.

For other languages like Chinese, we do not have any problem


Could the wrong controls be using a different font that doesn't support
those characters? I thought tree and combobox controls use the same default
font as the other controls, but maybe you could verify.

-- David

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