Re: VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode

2014-08-31 Thread Alan Bourke
It's because no version of VFP supports Unicode. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, at 03:29 PM, Man-wai Chang wrote: I created a simple form with a Forms 2.0 textbox called text1. I pasted in some Unicode characters into text1. I then tried to save

Re: VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode

2014-08-31 Thread AndyHC
On 31/08/2014 08:51, Alan Bourke wrote: It's because no version of VFP supports Unicode. however see: http://stevenblack.com/intlasia/ http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/foxunicode/foxunicode.asp ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

RE: VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode

2014-08-31 Thread Darren
: VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode It's because no version of VFP supports Unicode. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, at 03:29 PM, Man-wai Chang wrote: I created a simple form with a Forms 2.0 textbox called text1. I pasted in some Unicode

Re: VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode

2014-08-31 Thread Man-wai Chang
MS Forms objects are the external controls. The next step was to find a way for VFP 6 SP5 to accept Unicode data from COM objects as it is, without translating it to current locale/codepage (thus the ?s). On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Darren fox...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Well in fact it does

Re: VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode

2014-08-31 Thread Man-wai Chang
True! But VFP 9 added some new functions to make it easier to accept Unicode data from COM objects. On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm wrote: It's because no version of VFP supports Unicode. -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10

RE: VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode

2014-08-31 Thread Allen
We seem to have another new duplicate poster :) Al -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Man-wai Chang True! But VFP 9 added some new functions to make it easier to accept Unicode data from COM objects. On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:51 PM,

RE: VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode

2014-08-31 Thread Allen
Ah spotted it. You seem to have a CC with the same address as the main Al -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Man-wai Chang True! But VFP 9 added some new functions to make it easier to accept Unicode data from COM objects. On Sun, Aug

VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode

2014-08-30 Thread Man-wai Chang
I created a simple form with a Forms 2.0 textbox called text1. I pasted in some Unicode characters into text1. I then tried to save text1.text into a file. The saved file contained ? only! How could I make VFP 6 to save text1.text as it is? Is this a problem related to locale that could only be