What datatype??

gothic_coder

Chinese character is coming from "GetValue().bstrVal".. Take a look of following code..

bstrString_Dest = m_cpRecordsetSearch->Fields->GetItem("DestinationValue")->GetValue().bstrVal;

bstrString_Dest is declared as _bstr_t..

bstr_t bstrString_Dest

I tried with const whar_t *

const whar_t * bstrString_Dest

but no success.. My question is what data type should i use to hold chinese character in bstrString_Dest???? Thanks all..

Perspx

I'd highly recommend you read these two articles:

These should answer your question and will be invaluable for the future, however make sure to read part I first as part II relies on knowledge obtained there.

Stuart Dootson

A _bstr_t should certainly hold Chinese characters (it's effectively a managed wchar_t) - what's the problem that you're seeing?

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gothic_coder

_bstr_t did hold chinese character.. But when i see the data using watch or print to any file it shows "????" only... Chinese fonts are definately installed in my system..As i'm reading from database and i can vivdly see chinese character in database. Do i further need to typecast it?? Thanks..

Stuart Dootson

How are you writing it to a file?

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gothic_coder

Now using this..

(char *)(wchar_t*)bstrString_Dest

Stuart Dootson

As I asked before, "How are you writing it to a file?"

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gothic_coder

I'm writing in ini file..Also i'm displaying in messagebox..Say the data is "Abc(Some chinese character)"

MessageBoxW(0, (wchar_t*)bstrString_Dest, 0, 0);

The messagebox prints "Abc(square brackets)".

WritePrivateProfileString(pszSection,pszKey,(char *)(wchar_t*)bstrString_Dest,
pszinipath);

And this prints "A" only...

Stuart Dootson

gothic_coder wrote:

The messagebox prints "Abc(square brackets)".

It's probably using non-Unicode font? The following code prints the expected ideaographs with Visual Studio 2008 and Windows 7

MessageBoxW(L"丁丂七", L"Test", MB_OK);

gothic_coder wrote:

WritePrivateProfileString(pszSection,pszKey,(char *)(wchar_t*)bstrString_Dest, pszinipath);

That's the ANSI call, so it's no surprise that you can't write Unicode successfully with that call. However, I don't think WritePrivateProfileString will write Unicode anyway.

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gothic_coder

Alright.. when i copy

MessageBoxW(L"丁丂七", L"Test", MB_OK);

It comes as

MessageBoxW(L"???", L"Test", MB_OK);

So it has something to do with my VC 6 setting..Isn't it.. Can someone throw light on it.. And please Stuart tell me how do i write the data on file (Notepad)??? Thanks

gothic_coder

Well

MessageBoxW(0, (wchar_t *)bstrString_Dest, 0, 0);

giving me right data... Now the problem is how do i print this data to file?? Notepad?? Thanks..