Unicode. Supported platforms

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 5/12/03 6:00 PM, Peter De Berdt at peter.de.berdt at pandora.be wrote:

>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> I have look into REALbasic docs, and I see
>> 
>>>  Encoding in
>>>  Under Carbon/Mac OS X, EditFields store all text internally in
>>> Unicode, which
>>>  is able
>>>  to represent a mixture of fonts from different writing systems.
>> 
>> So REALbasic support Unicode only on MacOS X for Carbon target.
>> There is no need to support Unicode on classic then.
>> 
> 
> Nope, Unicode isn't supported for Classic, it is supported on Win32
> however, I just had to go through more than 100.000 lines of code
> (pretty big project) converting between ISO-Latin-1 (to store it in
> my Valentina datafile) and UTF-8 (when populating from my Valentina
> datafile) as the current version doesn't support Unicode. Otherwise
> you get garbage characters and broken code all around, so it's
> definitely supported on Windows compiles.

Yes, there is no doubt about Windows.
At least from win 2000 it self is based on Unicode UTF16

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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