Chinese characters

Mortie42

I'm writing a user interface with Visual C++ 6 on a computer with English as the working environment. I have Chinese script that I can see in Excel and RTF files. It uses a SimSun font. I want the same script to appear on a button using SetTitle. I compile successfully with UNICODE defined. However, I can't figure out how to get the characters into the code. Any ideas? ie wnd.SetTitle(_T("????")); Mortie

Waldermort

I often have problems writing Chinese into my code using VC6, though for me each character takes up the space of 2. ie. the caret is able to position itself in the center of a character. It's annoying sometimes, especially when trying to edit the end of a line which has Chinese at the beginning. A work around I often use is to write the function in notepad or something similar, then copy the whole thing over to MSVC. I have just downloaded the 2005 edition, I hope this has been fixed.

Michael Dunn

You need to use escapes to put non-ASCII characters in source code. Figure out the Unicode code points of the characters, and do something like this: wnd.SetTitle(L"\x341f\x98bc")); (those are made-up values) --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ

Mortie42

Cool. Any hints on figuring out the code points. I could put the characters into a unicode configured text file, read the strings with a C++ program and print out the hex values. Is there an easier method or a utility available. Mortie42

Michael Dunn

Put them in a text file - use Notepad and save as Unicode (big endian) for ease of reading. Then open the file in VC in binary mode. --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ

Mortie42

I must be close but... Using your method (thanks), my hex values are \x62a4\x6797. But I get empty boxes. When I use \x2021, I get the double dagger symbol. My code is basically, ... CFont font1; font1.CreateFont(13,0,0,0,FW_NORMAL,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,0,OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS,DEFAULT_QUALITY,DEFAULT_PITCH|EF_DONTCARE,_T("SimSun") ); Button.SetFont(&font1, TRUE); Button.SetTitle(_L"\x62a4\x6797"); ... What am I missing? Mortie42

Michael Dunn

You need to set the charset parameter correctly. For Chinese, there two - CHINESEBIG5_CHARSET and GB2312_CHARSET. One is simplified, one is traditional, I can never remember which is which. :-> --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ

Mortie42

Hmmm. I tried both. I compile w/o warnings But I still get two squares and a dagger with (L"\x62a4\x6797\x2021"); . Any ideas? :confused: Mortie42 -- modified at 17:10 Friday 24th March, 2006

Michael Dunn

This works for me in a WTL dialog-based app

LRESULT CMainDlg::OnInitDialog(UINT /*uMsg*/, WPARAM /*wParam*/, LPARAM /*lParam*/, BOOL& /*bHandled*/)
{
CButton btn = GetDlgItem(IDOK);

m\_font.CreateFont ( -13, 0, 0, 0, FW\_NORMAL, false, false, false, CHINESEBIG5\_CHARSET, OUT\_DEFAULT\_PRECIS,
                    CLIP\_DEFAULT\_PRECIS, DEFAULT\_QUALITY, DEFAULT\_PITCH|FF\_DONTCARE, \_T("SimSun") );

btn.SetFont ( m\_font );
btn.SetWindowText ( L"\\x62a4\\x6797" );

//...
}

The only change I made was the font size and char set params to CreateFont() --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ

Mortie42

I think I have issues else where. I'm using an old copy of VisualC++6.0 on a new WinXP o/s. I copied the DLL's for Chinese; APPWZCHS.DLL AND APPWZCHT.DLL from disc to machine. I tried making a simple MFC dialog application using these. The dialog box in VC showed one set of gibberish while on compilation and execution, the resulting dialog box had rows of ?'s. I'm taking a break for the weekend but before I go, could you tell me which version of VC and o/s you used? Thx for all the help. PS WTL is ...? Mortie42

Michael Dunn

I'm using VC 6 on XP SP2. If you're on a fresh XP you probably don't have the east Asian language support installed. Control Panel-Regional and Language options-languages-Install files for east Asian languages. WTL: clickety[^] --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ

Waldermort

Writing strings of Chinese in Hex format, urghh!!! It would be ok for very short items, but damn near impossible to read. I am using VC6, with windowsXP SP1, and the MS MultiLingual User Interface (English and Chinese version installed as one). I have no real problems writing chinese text into my code (without using ascii), or displaying it in the application. One point though, I never build Unicode, I always select MBCS. Try making a simple hello world app with a chinese string and play around with the settings until you get it right. If you have further problems I could give you a simple project to test.

Mortie42

Thx :-D I had assumed that because I could see the Chinese glyphs in Excel, word and Notepad that all was well. Bad me. With the East Asian Languages set the glyphs appear. :) Mortie42

Mortie42

Hi waldermort please send me the project, I value any tips I can get. mmortimer47 at hot mail dot com Mortie42

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