Re: Any component for Unicode for window 98 and Win2k

From: Rex chan (rexchan_at_net.yan.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:54:24 +0800

Hi!

Thanks for group member give me a lot of information. THANKS A LOT!

For my situation (Document Managment System), Win2k and Win98SE both can
access of my application (Chinese GB or Big 5 and English).
I want to use dtsearch for document searching word or Excel or PDF. This
library need unicode for searching. So Win98SE client must convert from Ansi
to Unicode for searching. Therefore, I need to know how to do it .

Thanks in advance!
"Steve Moss" <nospam@coco.dot.co.dot.uk>
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> G. Allen Casteran wrote:
>
> > Would you mind clarifying instead of just trashing...
>
> Indeed. Typical.
>
> The Unicode support on Win98 SE (and other Win9x O/Ss) is limited -
> only some basic Unicode API functions are available.
>
> What the TnT controls do is provide a consistent Unicode interface to a
> Delphi program using VCL controls, enabling a single-source Unicode
> code base to run on WinNT4/2K/XP and Win9x/Me. When running on
> WinNT4/2K/XP the controls in TnT are fully Unicode, while if they run
> on Win9x/Me they fallback to the (Ansi) VCL equivalents.
>
> The MSLU is similar in concept: it provides a complete set of Unicode
> API functions enabling a single-source Unicode code base to access the
> Windows API. Again, when running on WinNT4/2K/XP it implements full
> Unicode WinAPI calls, while if run on Win9x/Me it falls back to the
> (Ansi) WinAPI equivalents (with a few exceptions, which remain Unicode).
>
> You can download and freely use my Delphi interface unit for the MSLU
> here: http://www.coco.co.uk/pubftp/Developers/Delphi/unicows.zip.
>
> In many cases this is perfectly adequate. If you need to display text
> from multiple languages simultaneously using different code pages on
> Win9x a different solution would be needed. There are ways to do this,
> but none satisfactory that I have seen.
>
> For Rex Chan's stated requirements, it may well be sufficient to
> implement an Ansi database using the appropriate codepages, etc., for
> Chinese (but he would need to state his needs somewhat more clearly to
> conclude this).
>
> --
> Regards,
> Steve Moss,
> CoCo Systems Ltd.
>
> Delphi 6.02, Win2K + SP4

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