Legacy accepts Unicode from Win CharMap eg. in the Notes field, i just tried
ke 27. marrask. 2019 klo 1.48 John Cardinal ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > > Chris Hill wrote: > > > NO, the issue is that native VB6 only uses API interfaces > > > that are limited to ANSI. > > > > Chris, > > > > That's not true. I've built a dozen or so commercial programs in VB6 that > read/write/manipulate Unicode data, including reading and writing UTF-8 > files, presenting data entry screens, running reports, etc. A few are still > being used. Perhaps there are old third-party components that are not > Unicode-aware, but VB6 was certainly not limited to ANSI, API or otherwise. > VB^ used in MS Access? I have only done some light scripting there so I don't > know what issue Unicode may have presented there. > > > The string type in VB6 used "wide" characters (as they were called then), > 16-bits each. It's true that one had to be careful when calling Windows APIs > directly and call the correct "W" methods. Calling Windows APIs directly was > probably less than 15% of the code in my applications. To write a UTF-8 file, > one had to use the "binary" version of the Open File statement ("Open > FileSpec For Binary Access Write …") and then convert the chars to UTF-8 > before using the PUT call to write the text, but any reasonably-accomplished > VB6 programmer knew how to do that. The details escape me, but using binary > I/O may only have been necessary when low-level control was required, such as > reading/writing the Byte-Order-Mark (BOM). > > > > Of course, VB6 was very easy to use and so there were a lot of junior-level > programmers who may have been flummoxed by working with Unicode, but that's > not the fault of VB6. > > > > John > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- Otso Havu +358 50 5534170 +358 50 408 2248 otso.havu..gmail.com Sulkapolku 6 B 13 FI-00370 Helsinki Finland skype: otso.havu -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
