Re: display unicode db text in visual C++ mfc ide 2003

I think Hebrew/Arabic capability is included with every kind of XP (as well
as Chinese, Korean, Japanese), but not installed by default.
This is not your grandfather's Windows 95!

"Kurt Grittner" <grittkmg_NO_SPAM_@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Sahan,

I tore my hair out on this one time. This is the way it was at the
time that I ran into it (about 4 years ago). So it may have changed
since then.

1. Web browsers can show foreign languages.
2. There is a special version of Windows that is Hebrew/Arabic
capable. This version is different from standard Windows.
3. The various edit controls know enough that they shouldn't try to
make sense of the right-to-left text if they are part of the standard
windows, and they put up a message box that says "??" (not very
helpful).
4. The controls by the same name running in the Hebrew/Arabic version
of windows work fine.
5. When running the Hebrew/Arabic version of windows there is a little
blue square on the taskbar which documents the current state of the
input cursor. When this is set to EN-glish then anything you type
expands from the caret to the right. When it is in the AR-abic mode,
then anything you type expands from the caret to the left unless what
you are typing is a series of digits and then it expands to the right
after all.
6. MS-Word, MS-Excel, Wordpad, Notepad, et al all work in this way.

So to summarize, you could just use standard windows and send your
text to a web browser with the proper code-page or you could run your
application on the Hebrew/Arabic version of windows (Yes you do have
to pay for another copy of windows).

Hope this helps you,
-Kurt

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:01:00 -0800, .asahan
<.asahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I have a program that reads data in arabic language from database. I see
text as arabic in database. However, When I try to read it using MFC
database
classes, it is coming in not readable format. I don't want to use UNICODE
macro in program because there are many other integrated programs and
they
are aware of char and constant char types. I only would like to read this
arabic text in that portion of program.

I tried MultiByteToWideChar function for conversion. However, it didn't
work well. I am also suspicious about displaying, because even if the
conversion is successful, How can I see the real arabic text during
run-time?

How can I do it? If you help me I'll be appreciate.

A.Sahan


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