Internationalization Cookbook

Archive for July, 2005

Problems using Unicode characters with RTF controls in dialogs

Although the application is Unicode, it seems that the RichText controls hosted by dialogs cannot accept Unicode strings from the API.

Posted: Saturday, July 9th, 2005 | Categories: Localization, Windows | No Comments

Customized GetNumberFormat and GetCurrencyFormat

The GetNumberFormat and GetCurrencyFormat Windows API accepts a pointer to a structure or NULL. But there is no API to fill the structures with the values matching a certain locale.

Posted: Thursday, July 7th, 2005 | Categories: C/C++, Internationalization, Windows | No Comments