Problem while displaying "Greek" and "Russian" Strings

[msr_codeproject]

I am facing a strange problem. In my dialog application (Win32), I have a button control. I am loading a "Greek" string ("Επιλογή Εκτυπωτή")from a string DLL and trying to >Case-1 display on the button control. >Case-2 And also I am trying to use the same string to set the dialog's title. But here the problem is,on the button, text is displayed correctly, but dialog's title displayed as "?p???? ??t?p?t?" I am using (both for Case-1 and Case-2) >LoadStringW to load the string >SetWindowTextW to display While debugging, I found that strings are loaded properly in both the cases. I have also tried by changing code pages using setlocale API. But I couldn't solve this issue. Please provide me some tips so that I can move forward. Thanks in advance msr

[Sauro Viti]

The difference is on the font used for the two items: are you sure that the font used for window titles supports greek characters?

[msr_codeproject]

I have seen the dialog properties, the font is Microsoft Sans Serif. I think this font supports Greek also. Check Regards msr

[Lost User]

I have just used your Greek phrase to set my dialog title and it appears correctly (font is MS Sans serif), so I cannot see what is different between your code and mine. Maybe you could show a bit more of your code as there may be a clue that you have missed.

Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash

[msr_codeproject]

Hi, thanks for the reply. Here is my code.

WCHAR* chr = L"Επιλογή Εκτυπωτή";
HWND hWnd = ::GetDlgItem(m_hWnd, IDC_BUTTON);

::SetWindowTextW(m_hWnd, chr);
::SetWindowTextW(hWnd, chr);

>> Where m_hWnd is handle to the Dialog and hWnd is handle to the Button. >> Output >> Button - "Επιλογή Εκτυπωτή" >> Dialog's Title - "?p????? ??t?p?t?" Regards msr

[Lost User]

That is basically what I did and it worked fine. It would appear that the system is trying to translate the characters to a different font in the title of the dialog bar. I can only suggest rechecking your dialog settings, including verifying that the system is not sending a WM_SETFONT message which is changing it from your original font selection. Other than that I'm a bit lost I'm afraid. I am often reminded of a sentence in "Programming Windows 3.1" by Charles Petzold where he says (if I remember correctly): "No-one said it has to be to be easy". :(

Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash

[gothic_coder]

Same happen to me when i tried to load "Chinese" string, But changing locale works for me..

[msr_codeproject]

Hi, Even I have tried by changing local, but it didn't work for me. Can you just brief me how did you change your locale. Give me some steps. Thanks in advance... Regards msr

modified on Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:47 AM