Re: Chinese Windows and unicode

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 11:09:36 EDT


Sorry, but no version of Windows 95, 98, or Me really supports Unicode in
any real sense -- the APIs that support it are minimal.

Conversion is usually possible (via the WideCharToMultiByte and
MultiByteToWideChar APIs) but the number of code pages on the machine are
usually more limited than they are on WinNT/2000/XP/.Net and its unclear
what you would do with the information you have converted to Unicode once
you have accomplished the conversion?

MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Wang" <wang@cebu.weblinq.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:48 AM
Subject: Chinese Windows and unicode

> Dear Sir,
>
> I'd like to inquire if following Chinese Windows supports unicode, if
not
> how to enable it?
>
> Chinese Windows 95(GB and Big5)
> Chinese Windows 98(GB and Big5)
> Chinese Windows ME(GB and Big5)
>
> Is there a way to convert GB or Big5 to unicode in Windows which does not
> support unicode?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Frank
>
>
>
>
>



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