Re: CListCtrl unicode doesn't display korean characters correctly

From:
Dansk <dansk@laouilest.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:58:20 +0200
Message-ID:
<utI1X0$fHHA.2432@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Mihai N. a ?crit :

     // ListCtrl Font
     CFont *ListFont = m_List.GetFont();
     if(ListFont)
     {
         LOGFONT LogFont;
         ListFont->GetLogFont(&LogFont);
         lstrcpy(LogFont.lfFaceName, _T("Arial Unicode MS"));
         if(!_ListCtrlFont.CreateFontIndirect(&LogFont)) {
             lstrcpy(LogFont.lfFaceName, _T("Arial"));
              _ListCtrlFont.CreateFontIndirect(&LogFont);
         }
         m_List.SetFont(&_ListCtrlFont);


Ok, here it is: *not a Windows bug*

Try adding this after GetLogFont but before CreateFontIndirect:
   LogFont.lfCharSet = DEFAULT_CHARSET;

GetLogFont returns the original list's font. That selected when the list is
created, and it is 0 (ANSI_CHARSET).
But you are trying to show characters outside the ANSI code page.

See the "DEFAULT_CHARSET in LOGFONT" section in
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getwr/steps/wrg_font.mspx

<quote>
DEFAULT_CHARSET is not a real charset; in reality on Windows 2000 and Windows
XP it does two things:
- It tries to select the named font with the current system character set.
- If the named font exists but does not support the system character set, it
will still select the font with a charset that the font does support.

!!!
DEFAULT_CHARSET should be used when displaying a string of characters encoded
with Unicode.
!!!
</quote>


Hi,

Thank you for your interest.
When reading your comment, I thaought "That makes sense!"
So, I tried it.

No luck...

When I removed the BOM character, I got the exact same behaviour I had
before.

Anyway, I kept that DEFAULT_CHARSET as it looks more consistent (and I
re-added the BOM)

Thanks again

--
Dansk.

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