Extracting Chinese Character from a CString

[wow9999]

Dear all


CString aStr="Learning ¤¤¤å"; //a mixed English and Chinese string

Extracting each Chinese Character from The String and assign it to a UINT data type.

UINT aWord = ????

i use _MBCS not unicode

can someone tell me how?

[Franz]

For Big5 Chinese Character (2-byte char), the first byte is within a range (about 0xA1 to 0xFE). If it is in the range, then you have to extract both the current and next byte. Therefore, you combine the 2 extracted bytes to form back a Chinese Character.

[wow9999]

Thanks for your reply.

for extracting currenct byte, do you mean to use the IsDBCSLeadByte()?

I really donot how to extract both the current and next byte, and combine the 2 extracted bytes to form back a Chinese Character?

[Franz]

I hope the following code can help.

CString aStr = "Learning ¤¤¤å";
char cChinese[3];
cChinese[2] = '\0';
int i = 0;
while (i<aStr.GetLength()) {
	if ((byte)aStr[i] >= 0xA1 && (byte)aStr[i] <=0xFE) {
		cChinese[0] = aStr[i];
		cChinese[1] = aStr[i+1];
		AfxMessageBox(cChinese);
		++i;
	}
	++i;
}

[wow9999]

Thanks

code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CString aStr = "Learning ¤¤¤å";
char cChinese[3];
cChinese[2] = '\0';
int i = 0;
while (i<aStr.GetLength()) {
if ((byte)aStr[i] >= 0xA1 && (byte)aStr[i] <=0xFE) {
cChinese[0] = aStr[i];
cChinese[1] = aStr[i+1];
AfxMessageBox(cChinese);

UINT aWord = cChinese // How to assign a Char to UINT

++i;
}
++i;
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Franz]

Actually a UINT is a 4-byte variable while a Chinese Character is 2-byte. So how do you want to assign to the UINT?

[wow9999]

HI

DWORD GetGlyphOutline(
HDC hdc, // handle to device context
UINT uChar, // character to query
UINT uFormat, // format of data to return
LPGLYPHMETRICS lpgm, // pointer to structure for metrics
DWORD cbBuffer, // size of buffer for data
LPVOID lpvBuffer, // pointer to buffer for data
CONST MAT2 *lpmat2 // pointer to transformation matrix structure
);

I use GetGlyphOutline function to retrieve the outline for a character in the True type font, so it need to use "UINT".

It works ok when I assign a single Chinese Character to UINT.

UINT aWord ='¤¤'; // works ok

But for my program, the user will input a String; therefore, i have to extracte each character from the String and run GetGlyphOutline function for each character to get its outline.

[Franz]

CString aStr = "Learning ¤¤¤å";
int i = 0;
while (i<aStr.GetLength()) {
	if ((byte)aStr[i] >= 0xA1 && (byte)aStr[i] <=0xFE) {
		UINT aWord = 0;
		((char*)&aWord)[0] = aStr[i+1];
		((char*)&aWord)[1] = aStr[i];
		++i;
	}
	++i;
}

[wow9999]

I am really thank you for help me to solve this problem. and i found another way to assign a Chinese Character to UINT

CString aStr = "Learning ¤¤¤å";
int i = 0;
while (i<aStr.GetLength()) {
	if ((byte)aStr[i] >= 0xA1 && (byte)aStr[i] <=0xFE) {
                         int k1=(byte)aStr [i];
	         int k2=(byte)aStr [i+1];
	         UINT aWord=(k1*256)+k2; //(HiByte * 256 + LoByte)		
                     ++i;
	}
	++i;
}

What do you think about this method?

[Franz]

Either yours and mine can solve the problem. :-)
In my opinion, yours is better.