Although the application is Unicode, it seems that the RichText controls hosted by dialogs cannot accept Unicode strings from the API.
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
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
I am starting to write my first application. No books, not nothing. Just jump and try to swim.
Posted: Friday, June 17th, 2005 | Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems
Making the Big (Mac) decisions: what to buy, what compiler, Carbon or Cocoa?
Posted: Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 | Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems
I am moving to the dark side: learning some Mac programming. Not to become an expert, but at least to see how internationalization works in that part of the world :-)
Posted: Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 | Categories: Mac OS X, Operating Systems
One of the most basic operations. You will need to do this countless times if you have to use non-Unicode applications to manipulate localized data (for instance if you have to resize Japanese resources in Developer Studio .NET 2003 or earlier).
Posted: Saturday, June 11th, 2005 | Categories: Windows
Explains why the ANSI-Unicode applications separation, and why the limitations of ANSI applications cannot be solved without moving to Unicode.
Posted: Friday, March 18th, 2005 | Categories: C/C++, Windows