Re: Changing part program to display UNICODE strings

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:52:00 -0500
Message-ID:
<eD3n5mkYHHA.4552@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
pfArt wrote:

John, I just copied your first code and changed the following lines :

WCHAR str[]={(wchar_t)0x6881,(wchar_t)0x6881,(wchar_t)0x9326,
(wchar_t)0x83ef};

LOGFONTW lf={26, 0, 0, 0, 0, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, DEFAULT_CHARSET,
                OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,
DEFAULT_QUALITY,
                DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_DONTCARE, L"Arial Unicode MS"};

Now its showing some Chinese characters (finaly !!) THANK YOU.

2 remarks :
Can't change CString to CStringW (can't find the CStringW definition)

There must be something wrong with the reading of the unicode file
sinds the passed CString only displays ????? marks.
Here is my code for reading the file :

    wchar_t strBuf[20];
    CFile myFile;
    CString
tempBuf,fileUrl,fileBuf,strBuff,fileContents,engString,retString;
    wchar_t firstChar;
    int retVal,nrOfBytes;

        if (myFile.Open(myXMLPath, CFile::modeRead | CFile::shareDenyNone))
            {
                if (myFile.Read(&firstChar, sizeof(wchar_t)) > 0)
                {
                    //Unicode
                    if (firstChar != (wchar_t)0xFEFF)
                    {
                        reply = -1;
                        logMsg << "Error: File : " << languageXMLPath << " is not saved
as UNICODE.";
                        throw globalException(logMsg,reply);
                    }
                    do
                    {
                        nrOfBytes = myFile.Read(strBuf,sizeof(strBuf));
                        tempBuf = (CString)strBuf;
                        fileBuf = fileBuf + tempBuf.Left(nrOfBytes/2);

                    }while (nrOfBytes>0);
                }
                myFile.Close();
                myXml.SetDoc(fileBuf);
            }

Peter:

WCHAR str[]={(wchar_t)0x6881,(wchar_t)0x6881,(wchar_t)0x9326,
(wchar_t)0x83ef};

Shouldn't you be NUL-terminating this string?

If you don't see CStringW maybe you are using VC6? Perhaps you could use
std::wstring?

Not sure about your file reading problem. I don't use CFile, and I
always write to disk using UTF-8.

David Wilkinson

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