Unicode support for control or application

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Hi All,
My visual studio has Unicode supported .lib and .dlls.

The problem is, I have a html file which has, Tamil letters.
How to display that letter in a text box or in any control. Even after i set unicode support in project settings, When i tried to set tamil characters in text box, it is showing as like ???????????????????????????????????
After i used to mbstowcs() WIN32 API function to convert from Multibyte to Unicode letters.
it is showing like this "à®ªà®¾à®°à®¤à®¿à®¤à®¾à®šà®©à¯ à®ªà®¾à®Ÿà®²à¯à®•à®³à¯"

Can anyone please help me what i need to do, to display other language characters.

Posted 27-Jul-10 20:51pm

Rajesh Apr09

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2010-07-27T20:59:00

Solution 1

I guess, you are missing the Tamil Locale MUI. You need to install the language pack such that the text in that locale can be seen properly.

Read all about them here: Multiple User Interface (MUI) Language Packs[^]

Posted 27-Jul-10 20:59pm

Sandeep Mewara

Nemanja Trifunovic · Answer 2 · 2010-07-28T00:08:00

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Not enough information to give a definitive response, but I guess your Tamil html file is encoded in UTF-8. You need to convert it to UTF-16 (usually called "Unicode" on Windows) first (mbstowcs won't do it for you) and then display it in a control.

Also, you need to make sure the font you use in your control supports Tamil letters.

Posted 28-Jul-10 0:08am

Nemanja Trifunovic

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Rajesh Apr09 28-Jul-10 6:49am

Hi Thank you for ur answer.

Let me tell u clearly about my scenario.
i. I have 1 browser control & 1 text box in a dialog box.
ii. If i click on some link i need to display that link(label) in the text box.
iii. The webpage could be any language.

Problem: If the webpage has other than english characters, how to display or support the control(text box) for all languages.