Re: Convert CString to unicode code points

From:
geekgrrl <geekgrrl71@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:13:33 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<bbd882b3-3efc-43d5-aa7b-741a26abe482@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 4, 12:03 pm, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

FEDE hex is -302 as a signed decimal number. So if you are *writing* t=

he RTF on your own,

you would do something like I showed below, except that the ch formatting=

 would be

ch.Format(_T("\\u%d?"), text[i]);

text[i] is a TCHAR value, that is, a signed integer. So just formattin=

g it as a signed

integer would give you the correct formatting.
                                    =

    joe

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:53:33 -0800 (PST), geekgrrl <geekgrr...@hotmail.com=
wrote:

On Feb 4, 10:46 am, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

It looks like they gave the signed decimal equivalent character (it is=

 worth observing

that the syntax they've invented is more than a little bad; for exampl=

e, if I have the

Arabic symbol for "1" and want to display it as "1", how can it tell w=

here the character

code leaves off and the display for non-Unicode readers begin). So =

I get

-302 FEDE
-307 FECD
-287 FEE1
etc., which according to my Unicode book seem to be Arabic letters, so=

 are consistent with

your statement that these are going to be Arabic

WideCharToMultiByte with the ANSI code page (which means "prevailing 8=

-bit language code

page") should indeed display ? for each of these characters, because t=

hey have no 8-bit

equivalent.

Not sure why you are actually doing WCTMB because it is *supposed* to =

give you ?

characters for 1252 (not clear that the ? given in the RTF has any rel=

evance to WCTMB,

just on what reading the RTF file into an 8-bit stream would produce).

What you would do if you really want the hex values of the characters =

is use a CStringW

(which is the default for CString in a Unicode app) and iterate over t=

he characters, e.g.,

CString text; // this presumes you are compiling as a Unicode app
c_MyRichEditCtrl.GetWindowText(text);
for(int i = 0; i < text.GetLength(); i++)
    { /* show characters */
     CString ch;
     ch.Format(_T("%02x"), (WORD)text[i]);
     // ch is now something like fee1
     // so display ch or do what you want with it
    } /* show characters */
                                  =

      joe

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 07:07:05 -0800 (PST), geekgrrl <geekgrr...@hotmail.=

com> wrote:

Hello,

I need to display formatted unicode text in a CRichEditCtrl -
specifically Chinese or Arabic characters.

From the RTF specification, I need to write out to the rtf stream the
the following sequence: \uN?, where N represents the Unicode characte=

r

value expressed as a decimal number, and the question mark is what no=

n-

unicode enabled readers would use to display the character/.

A snippet of an rtf with proper unicode encoding looks like this:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss
\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.21.2508;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20\u-30=

2?

\u-307?\u-287?\u-290?\u-327?\u-302?\u-318?\u-338?\u-342?\u-345?\u-368=

?

\u-1131?\u-1132?\u-1135?\u-1234?\u-1231?\u-1228?\par

My question is how do I find the unicode character value for each of
the characters in my CString? My CString is wide, and using
WideCharToMultiByte gives ???? instead of the actual characters, whic=

h

is normal as these characters can't be displayed in ANSI on my code
page (1252).

Thanks.


Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newco...@flounder.com
Web:http://www.flounder.com
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Thanks for the responses, it's a bit clearer to me now. Now my
question is how to convert the FED2 to -302, as that is the string I
need to output to my rtf stream.
Using strol gives me 65234, which is greater than 32767, so I know
this should be output as a negative.


Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newco...@flounder.com
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The formatting :

ch.Format(_T("\\uc1\\u%d?"), text[i]);

results in

\uc1\u65234?"

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