Working with Character sets...

[zehd]

My ZRename program reads the database and retrieves a 'subtitle' Episode name with an accent grave ( é ) into memory

It saves the character to a text file. The text file is using UTF-8

But when I manipulate the string in the program, like fill text boxes, or popup message boxes, I get the wrong characters. Internally String compares don't work, but if I try to catch it by logging the string compares to a text file, it looks right, because the characters are being reencoded into UTF-8

I realize that VB6 is considered antique now, but from what I read none of the MS languages are UNICODE aware.

Does anyone have suggestions?

[sub]

Sorry - I cant tell you anything about VB6's string handling. I've never programmed using it myself.

[zehd]

Sorry - I cant tell you anything about VB6's string handling. I've never programmed using it myself.

(Man are you fast...)

I kinda thought that. But I guess you're dealing with something like this now, considering the other thread. At least what would be your approach using your language...?

(Be easy on me...)

[sub]

C# pretty much takes care of it, but this can be broken sometimes when I call native Windows APIs if I'm not careful. Most parts of the app are pretty friendly to multibyte character sets. I havnt looked into the cause of the problem mentioned in those couple of threads yet, but have got them on a list to do before the next release - I'm pretty sure it'll just be something related to those specific screens.

[zehd]

I have a really nasty fix...

It will add a lot of lines of code to get all the characters replaced but here's six that I have forced into my app. I hate it but at least it works.

(Thank God for 'billion cycle per second machines')

txtSubtitle = Replace(txtSubtitle, "é", "é")
txtSubtitle = Replace(txtSubtitle, "è", "è")
txtSubtitle = Replace(txtSubtitle, "ê", "ê")
txtSubtitle = Replace(txtSubtitle, "È", "È")
txtSubtitle = Replace(txtSubtitle, "É", "É")
txtSubtitle = Replace(txtSubtitle, "Ê", "Ê")

I will probably make a ini that will load the two values into an array, and then cycle through the list. But this is not elegant :eek:

[mvallevand]

I realize that VB6 is considered antique now, but from what I read none of the MS languages are UNICODE aware.

Does anyone have suggestions?

I had to write some VB6 code to take really old MSDOS OEM code page 437 text and convert it first to Window CP 1252 and finally to UTF and I think that the API function was wideCharToMultiByte

Martin.

[zehd]

Thanks guys.

Martin, wideCharToMultiByte was bang on. It led me to a really cool code snippet.

[MixMan]

MS Forms Control 2.0 for VB6 support unicode if I don't remember wrong
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224305