loadstring fails in MBCS encoding

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Hi,

Implementation of CString::LoadString has changed from VC6 to VC7 and I
can't load MBCS resources correctly any more.
When I translate the application to Russian or Chinese languages, dialogs
and menus and all strings defined directly in the resource file are well
displayed but
the problem is when I have to load dynamicaly some resources like this :

CString s;
s.LoadString (MY_ID_RESOURCE);
m_edit.SetWindowText(s);

Then, the string will be "????????" instead of the rigth one.

Debugging, I have found that in VC7 LoadString implementation makes a
conversion with a call to ConvertToBaseType method.

I have found two solutions :

the first one is to use TCHAR instead of CString :

TCHAR buf[255];
LoadString(NULL, MY_ID_RESOURCE, buf, 255);
m_edit.SetWindowText(buf);

the second one is to change properties of the project by changing Character
Set from MBCS to Unicode.

Unfortunatly, neither of the two solutions are possible.

The first one cannot be used because there are also dynamic loads in mfc
code (like for the title of the main frame).

The second one makes two much changes in the code of the application which
is two large.

Does any body has an idea ?
Thanks in advance.
Selena






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