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

"Thorsten Albers" <albersRE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> mayayana <mayaXXyana1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Beitrag
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>> Codepoint? I gather you're going to make
>> me look that up to figure out what you're
>> talking about.
>
> Sorry, it is "code point", not "codepoint"...
>
> For the term please refer to
> http://www.unicode.org/glossary/index.html#code_point
>
> This term is used to differentiate the Unicode character encodings from
> standard single byte character encodings. Unicode code points are used not
> only to encode characters but also to encode administrative data, control
> codes, etc. And some characters are encoded by 2 code points
> ("surrogates";
> 4 byte instead of 2). So the term "code point" seems to be a bit more
> comprehensive than the term "character code".


Code points are dependent on code pages. If a code page is not specified,
the code point is indeterminate.

Are you sure that all wide string versions of SDK functions are dependent on
a code page? I think not, but I am not sure. Unless all wide string versions
of SDK functions are dependent on a code page, it is not reasonable to
expect VB to always use code pages to interpret Unicode characters.


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