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

"Thorsten Albers" <albersRE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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...

Yes, VB has little support of external representation of characters. Windows
however does and VB depends on Windows to draw the characters. In other
words, Windows provides fonts that provides external representation of
characters.

Most fonts provided by Windows are not Unicode fonts, but Windows can
convert Unicode characters (code points) to characters in the fonts. It is
not necessary for VB to do that; therefore it is unreasonable to expect VB
to do that.


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