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

From: "Thorsten Albers" <albersRE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 05:52:56 -0700

Sam Hobbs <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Beitrag
<e0SPbmCVFHA.628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
> So some people say it is Unicode and you say it is not Unicode. That's
the
> kind of babble that causes long discussions. If VB does nmot use Unicode
> internally, then what does it use?

VB uses Unicode >strings< and is able to map some extended ANSI character
codes (82h to 8Ch, 91h to 9Ch, 9Fh) to the corresponding Unicode code
points of the respective Unicode code point range. That's all of VB's
Unicode support. But that's not all of Unicode...

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