Hi Neil,

Thanks for the help - Scintilla is an excellent tool.  A modified
version of the code from SetDlgItemText2 does exactly what I need.  I
only intend to support Windows 2000 and above, so the limited unicode
support in Win98 is not a problem.

Regards,
Robert.

On 21/06/05, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Roessler:
> 
> > Note that Scintilla supports UTF-8 encoding of Unicode - so the
> > buffers are still [sort of] dealing with chars.
> 
>    Scintilla does not support UTF-16 or UTF-32. Scintilla's support
> for UTF-8 does not attempt to view the text as a stream of characters
> but rather as a stream of octets (the C char type) that make up
> characters. Each character may contain between 1 and 3 octets and the
> positions of character starts may be found using SCI_POSITIONBEFORE
> and SCI_POSITIONAFTER.
> 
>    Most of the time you are retrieving text based on positions
> returned from Scintilla such as the selection which should be a range
> of whole characters and can be retrieved by allocating a char buffer
> SelectionStart-SelectionEnd+1 long, retrieving the selection range
> into that buffer, and converting from UTF-8 to UTF-16 using
> MultiByteToWideChar or similar.
> 
>    For an example of retrieving text to use in find and replace
> dialogs, look in scite/win32/SciTEWinDlg.cxx for SetDlgItemText2 and
> its callers although it is made more complex by supporting other code
> pages and by Windows 9x where unicode support is limited.
> 
>    Neil
> 
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