Re: Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me systems

>VB Unicode support is limited....
> Other Unicode features

He was talking about API calls. What are the inherent VB
limitations that you're implying, and what would be "other
features" that are beyond actually handling the strings?
Something like some kind of limitations in language support?
I was under the impression that unicode merely referred to
2-byte character representation.


> > If you have Matthew Curland's Advanced Visual
> > Basic 6 book, see the "Unicode conversions"
> > section starting on page 360. VB *is* unicode.
> > It's just converting to ANSI on either end, for
> > convenience. But StrPtr(string) is pointing to
> > a unicode string.
>
> Real Unicode support includes a bit more than reading and writing wide
> character strings. And that's to what the VB Unicode support is limited.
> Other Unicode features depend on the OS' implementation of Unicode.
>



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