Re: Unicode String Table in VC ++ 6.0/8.0

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom@nospam.camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:19:27 -0800
Message-ID:
<71E954E1-AA14-4175-8FD0-87B257114D35@microsoft.com>
Yeah, I have vague memories of VC6 as well. I think you had to open the
..RC file with notepad and resave it changing the type to Unicode instead of
ANSI then from that point on VC6 could handle it. But, to be fair, I
haven't used VC6 for so long that I don't know if that was VC6 or VC.NET or
2003 or 2005 where it started working like that.

Tom

"David Lowndes" <DavidL@example.invalid> wrote in message
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How to load insert unicode string in string table in VC++ 6.0?


I have a vague recollection that VC6 has "issues" with Unicode
resources - in that it couldn't really handle them in an ideal way. I
think the VC6 resource editor was limited to work with characters in
the current code page - though as I said, it's just a vague memory
now. If you can edit the resource file with a Unicode editor (Notepad
should be OK), then you might find it would work.

Newer versions of VS don't (AFAIK) have any such limitation.

Dave

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