Re: Code Page problem in SetWindowText

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:18:08 -0700
Message-ID:
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Hi Norman,

You'd be surprised how many times I do this sort of thing. The problem is
with pre-2005 versions if you edit the wrong resource by mistake the RC
editor would trash all of your other resources (yielding ???) unless you
were in the correct region (locale) while editing. Fortunately, this
doesn't seem to be a problem with Unicode RC files. Still, I use Notepad to
make some changes since the search and replace works so much nicer :o)

Tom

"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@community.nospam> wrote in message
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"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.it> wrote in message
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"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:Xns99A4E42A0E677MihaiN@207.46.248.16...

Indeed, but it suggests MBCS by default and can't handle Unicode RC
files.


This is still true for VS 2003.
VS 2005 was the first one to switch (and still bugy at that).


So, in VC6 or VS2003 Unicode-built app we can't have e.g. a string-table
resource with Japanese characters in Unicode?


It's the other way around. In VC6 or VS2003 Unicode-built apps, we can't
have e.g. a string-table resource with any NON-JAPANESE characters in
Unicode.

Is there any workaround?


Use Notepad to edit the RC file. (Facts are funnier than jokes, eh?)

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