how to display unicode without unicode built?

[Peter Chan 0]

I want to display a unicode string in my CStatic(label) control. But I don't want to bulit my application unicode(add _UNICODE/UNICODE in preprocessor). Is there any solution?

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

You can never display UNICODE text in a non-unicode application. Therefore, your only solution would be to display it as an image.

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[Peter Chan 0]

Thanks.

[khan]

I think you could use code similar to the following: ::SetWindowTextW(m_Static.m_hWnd, L"Unicode text here"); Where m_Static is your static control.

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[Stephen Hewitt]

This is not the case. Take the following example ANSI application:

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)
{
MessageBoxW(NULL, L"This string is UNICODE!", L"Unicode", MB_OK);

return 0;

}

In this case all the UNICODE define (and related ones) does is map the macro MessageBox to either the MessageBoxA function (non-UNICODE) or the MessageBoxW function (UNICODE). By using MessageBoxW we get the UNICODE version regardless the the setting.

Steve

[Peter Chan 0]

Yeah, I have tried that. But what it displayed only "????????????" So I think the only way is building it in unicode

[KarstenK]

Convert the Unicode text to ansi text. If this is not possible than you need a Unicode application.:omg:

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[Stephen Hewitt]

It worked perfectly when I tried it just then. Also, you may want to investigate the CCM_SETUNICODEFORMAT message.

Steve

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Thanks for pointing it out, I think I've been avoiding ANSI builds for all good reasons. I've never tried what you've suggested.

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