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Re: Win32Lib and Unicode

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at agricultur?.go?v.fr> Mar 07, 2008
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Pete Stoner wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys,
> I've got a nice routine to convert UTF-8 into "Windows" unicode (adapted from
> routines by Tommy Carlier) along with a modified wPuts to write the unicode
> to my window. That bit is working fine but now to complete the jigsaw I need
> a unicode version of setHint and at the moment I can't see an easy way to do
> it, can anyone help?
> 
> Regards PeteS

Simply use setHint[Ex]() and pass a routine_id as spelled out in the docs. The
routine will return an Euphoria sequence representing your 16-bit encoded text,
like {'H',0,'e',0,'l',0,'l',0,'o',0,0}.
Note the extra zero at the end, because w32store() will add only one and 16-bit
strings need 2 of them. So the char #ABCD would be coded as #CD,#AB.
Also, make sure the tooltip font supports the characters you are going to
display. You may need to call setHintFont() for this purpose.
I didn't test this, but I'd be confident, if only because there are no special
Unicode tooltip messages in the API.

HTH
CChris