I have a huge old project. Converting it to total UNICODE compilation is very difficult. I need few menus and Messages boxes in UNICODE (Need in Japanese).
How to achive this without UNICODE compilation?
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance
Anita Eugene
I think you need MessageBoxW(), wchar_t data type and maybe 'mbtowc()' and 'wctomb()'.
There a some unicode functions that you can call directly to its unicode implementation.
For example TextOutW()
There are more, probably MessageBoxW is one of them. However if you are running under Win 9x or Win Me you will need the aid of the Microsoft Layer for Unicode to run that functions. If you are running under W2000 or XP you won't need the layer for unicode and you can call all the unicode functions directly.
TextOutW is the unique function I know that does not need the MLU. I think there are more I have seen them somewhere I can't remember now.
Better you search MSDN for these topics.
First, thanks a lot for the replies. TextOutW(..) prints somthing but not UNICODE. (I tried with some japanese characters. I have already installed japanese characters and its working on IE)
I tried the following code to test it for the first few characters of [Ã¥´ëºñÀÌ ÀÖÀ»±î¿ä]
I am on Win98. Japanese UNICODE already installed.Code:wchar_t wchBuff[100];
wchBuff[0] = 0xcc45;
wchBuff[1] = 0xb300;
wchBuff[2] = 0xbe44;
wchBuff[3] = 0xc774;
wchBuff[4] = 0x00;
wchBuff[5] = 0x00;
TextOutW (pCDC->m_hDC, 0,0, wchBuff, 1);
MessageBoxW(NULL,wchBuff,NULL,MB_OK);
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for the helps.
Anita Eugene
First of all you are only writting one character, you should put 3 instead of 1.
Second, pCDC should have selected an appropiate font for displaying japanese.Code:TextOutW (pCDC->m_hDC, 0,0, wchBuff, 3);
Third, are you sure that is unicode japanese text and not shif-jis, euc or other codification?
Thankyou for your reply. I corrected as below.
Below is a sample line cut and pasted here from my outlook
Ã¥´ëºñÃ¥ÀÌ ÀÖÀ»±î¿ä??
Here is my corrected code ?
How can I select the font ?Code:wchar_t wchBuff[100];
wchBuff[0] = 0xcc45;
wchBuff[1] = 0xb300;
wchBuff[2] = 0xbe44;
wchBuff[3] = 0xc774;
wchBuff[4] = 0x00;
wchBuff[5] = 0x00;
CDC *pCDC = GetDC();
TextOutW (pDC->m_hDC, 0,0, wchBuff, 3);
MessageBoxW(NULL,wchBuff,NULL,MB_OK);
What font I have to select ?
Thanks for your helps
Anita Eugene
Since you are using MFC you can create a CFont object and select it with the DC's SelectObject() function. I think you should include a valid japanese character set in the definition of the font.
What font? Select a japanese font if you have "MS Gothic" and "MS Mincho" are examples.
Really are those characters valid unicode japanese characters and not other codification?
Can you tell me what do you want to write in japanese to check the wchar_t values?
When I visited a japanese page, my IE automatically loaded japanese in to my PC and could see the page in japanese.
I copied these lines from the webpage to my outlook as below
http://66.241.194.55/test/codeguru1.gif
then viewed the HTML of this code as below
http://66.241.194.55/test/codeguru2.gif
I converted first three characters in to hex (Ex. 52293 to 0xCC45 )
So, I am sure these are japanese unicode bytes.
Then I tried to print three of these characters. Please see FONT face is "Times New Roman" in my html source. But, still I see japanese.
Code:wchar_t wchBuff[100];
wchBuff[0] = 0xcc45;
wchBuff[1] = 0xb300;
wchBuff[2] = 0xbe44;
wchBuff[3] = 0xc774;
wchBuff[4] = 0x00;
wchBuff[5] = 0x00;
CDC *pDC = GetDC();
TextOutW (pDC->m_hDC, 0,0, wchBuff, 5);
MessageBoxW(NULL,wchBuff,NULL,MB_OK);
MS Gothic" or "MS Mincho" are not see on my font list. But, without these, I am able to see japanese in outlook and HTML page.
I will be really thankful if you can help me little further. Let me also know how to load the font.
Thanks again
Anita Eugene
You got confused.
Sorry but that characters are not japanese, they are corean.
I think these code lines can show you how to use TextOutW with japanese unicode text. The font I have used is "Arial unicode MS" which supports japanese text. You can use any other font wich supports japanese text.
Note that in CreateFont the charset is set to 512 wich is SHIFTJIS_CHARSET, however I have tested with other values like DEFAULT_CHARSET and I continue succesfuly viewing the japanese text.
MSDN suggest that the charset must be consistent with the facename. I'm not sure about the importance of this parameter respect the final result.
If the process is succesful you sould be able to see the text attached.Code:
CFont Font;
CFont *old;
wchar_t wchBuff[11];
CDC* pDC=GetDC();
Font.CreateFont(20, // Height
0, // Width
0, // Escapement
0, // Orientation
FW_BOLD, // Weight
FALSE, // Italic
FALSE, // Underline
0, // StrikeOut
512, // CharSet
OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, // OutPrecision
CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, // ClipPrecision
DEFAULT_QUALITY, // Quality
DEFAULT_PITCH, // PitchAndFamily
_T("Arial Unicode MS")); // Facename
old=pDC->SelectObject(&Font);
wchBuff[0] = 0x65e5;
wchBuff[1] = 0x672c;
wchBuff[2] = 0x8a9e;
wchBuff[3] = 0x3067;
wchBuff[4] = 0x66f8;
wchBuff[5] = 0x304d;
wchBuff[6] = 0x307e;
wchBuff[7] = 0x3057;
wchBuff[8] = 0x3087;
wchBuff[9] = 0x3046;
wchBuff[10] = 0x0000;
TextOutW (pDC->m_hDC, 0,0, wchBuff, 10);
pDC->SelectObject(old);
ReleaseDC(pDC);
You are correct. That was korean. I tried your sample as it is. But, I think the font is the problem.
I get the following
http://66.241.194.55/test/codeguru3.gif
I am sure it is the font problem. Now, how and from where to install this font Arial Unicode MS on my PC ?
If this font is currently not available on my PC, how is this getting displayed on my outlook or HTML ?
How to check that I have this font on my PC?
Thank you for your great help.
Anita Eugene
I don't know why I have Arial Unicode, maybe it was installed by some application.
Some Japanese fonts are installed when you install japanese support for your computer, for example if you download the Japanese Global IME from microsoft home page, the "MS Gothic" and "MS Mincho" fonts are installed.
You can also search internet and try to find some japanese fonts. I think there are some free japanese fonts somewhere.
I think Arial Unicode MS is installed with a full install of Internet Explorer + when you add non-latin languages to your set of locales.
I think (although I may be wrong) it comes as standard with W2K & XP but not on 98.
That's my font of preference too as it covers just about all unicode ranges pretty thoroughly, although isn't as pretty in Arabic as Arial for instance.
However, it is HUGE (23Mb) so I can't post it.
You could try searching for it using google et al and get it that way.
Darwen.
Oh I've just found out it comes as part of Microsoft Office so if you have that you should have it on your machine.
Darwen.
Thank you for the info.Quote:
Originally posted by darwen
Oh I've just found out it comes as part of Microsoft Office so if you have that you should have it on your machine.
Darwen.
Yes I have MS Office, and many other programs. Too many, I think.
Thank you Doctor Luz. Your final sample should work. But, as I have not found a suitable font for Korean and Japanese languages, still could not test it on my PC. Still searching for it.
Will the MessageBoxW(...) also work as same ?
Is it possible to get the DC of the menu resouce and change the menu text also in this method ?
Thank you once again.
Anita Eugene
A little background : I write VC++ software for a company which produces subtitling software - i.e. the software necessary to do DVD subtitling (amongst others).
In this field I have a great deal of experience in dealing with multi language support without Unicode builds (as our software is capable of being run on W98 as well as W2K etc).
I've had to do reverse languages such as arabic and hebrew as well as just about every other language on the planet.
OK, now I've justified my answer I will give you this :
(a) Arial Unicode copes with the vast majority of Japanese characters which I have encountered. However it isn't too good at Korean.
(b) Korean is a bit of a pain since we had to hunt hard to find a font which worked properly. I can't offhand remember which one it is, but there is one out there sitting on a website waiting to be downloaded.
When dealing with multi language support you need various tools, the primary of which should be an app to allow you to enter a unicode value and font with a charset and see whether your existing drawing code (be it ExtTextOut or whatever) will draw it.
Sorry, you'll have to write this yourself. This is heavily linked to your method.
I would, however, recommend you take a look at the Uniscribe library (look it up in MSDN). It is the library which I use and seems extremely comprehensive when it comes to drawing all languages.
If all else fails contact Agfa and they will be able to sell you a font which meets your needs for around 20 dollars.
Darwen.
Oh and an additional : getting message boxes etc to draw Korean in Windows isn't easy at all.
You are (once you have your text drawing code working) much better off writing your own message boxes which mimic Windows.
Either that, or suggest to your clients (I presume you have clients in Korea) that they send you a Korean version of XP or 2000. Although the OS is fundamentally the same, there are subtle differences which we have experienced.
We've never actually tried do do a non-english version of our software - our company is too small and it's just not cost-effective.
However we do cope with a very wide variety of languages in a single piece of software (i.e. you can have an arabic and a hebrew and an english and a bulgarian (cyrillic) document open in the same MDI environment).
So, although I've never had to cope with multi-language resources I do have experience in multi-language support.
Darwen.
That's not so say we haven't tried and done studies of course - which is why the above is a little 'a can do this/can't do this' if you see what I mean.
Darwen.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Good and useful.
But, I am still looking for a suitable font for Korean language.
As you said, we can make our own messages box with the available functions. This is not a problem
If I get a good Korean font, good. But, without I having this font on my PC, how IE is able to display these characters properly?
I am able to see Korean fonts properly on IE. Does this mean that I already have a Korean font on my PC?
When we visit a page with different language, IE automatically download the font from Microsoft. Is it not a font? Can't we use this font in VC++
I am sorry, these are my basic doubts.
Thank you
Anita Eugene
I don't know Korean and I don't know if the character codes you posted previously is for Korean, but the following seems to do something valid with the code you provided. I think I reversed the sequence of the bytes, though. Note that I am (I think I am) using a Unicode font, which I am not sure about, but you probably can use the same font for all languages.Produces:Code:wchar_t wchBuff[]={L'\xcc45', L'\xb300', L'\xbe44', L'\xc774', 0};
CFont Font, *pprevFont;
LOGFONT lf;
memset(&lf, 0, sizeof(LOGFONT));
strcpy(lf.lfFaceName, "Arial Unicode MS");
lf.lfHeight = 16;
Font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
pprevFont = pDC->SelectObject(&Font);
TextOutW(pDC->m_hDC, 10, 10, wchBuff, wcslen(wchBuff));
pDC->SelectObject(pprevFont);
Thank you Sam.
Can some one give a download link for Arial Unicode MS font?
Microsoft does not provide this download link any more.
I searched google also. Could not find a suitable download location.
Thank you for your help.
Anita Eugene
I went to Microsoft TechNet: Home and in the "Search for" box at the upper left I entered "Arial Unicode MS" and got so much information that I won't try to list it all. I learned a few important things.
First, Arial Unicode MS is installed with Office and is probably only available with Office. That seems odd, since it is (if I understand what Microsoft is saying) the most complete font for international use that is available from Microsoft. However if relevant, you probably can get an equivalent front elsewhere, perhaps for free or a small fee.
Next, we can omit use of font names and get fonts based on other criteria and probably we can get Korean fonts by specifying a Korean character set. So a revised code sample is:I don't know what the difference is between HANGUL_CHARSET and JOHAB_CHARSET. Note that (I think) this will always create a Unicode font with the Korean charcter set (code page) unless a matching font does not exist in the system. I think that after creating the font, you can get the charcter set of the created font, and if it is not what you requested, you know that the user must install a font.Code:wchar_t wchBuff[]={L'\xcc45', L'\xb300', L'\xbe44', L'\xc774', 0};
CFont Font, *pprevFont;
LOGFONT lf;
memset(&lf, 0, sizeof(LOGFONT));
lf.lfHeight = 16;
lf.lfCharSet = HANGUL_CHARSET; // or JOHAB_CHARSET?
Font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf);
pprevFont = pDC->SelectObject(&Font);
TextOutW(pDC->m_hDC, 10, 10, wchBuff, wcslen(wchBuff));
pDC->SelectObject(pprevFont);
Other than that, there is an abundance of other material to look at; just do the search I described above.
I don't know how useful the Free UCS Outline Fonts page is but it is something I stumbled on a couple of days ago.