Re: Convert CString to unicode code points
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
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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]
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The formatting :
ch.Format(_T("\\uc1\\u%d?"), text[i]);
results in
\uc1\u65234?"
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