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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Treatment of "Two byte character" of character string

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kuro
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2007 03:47
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I'm sorry, because it is a machine translation, sentences might be strange.

It is counted as two characters when it tries to treat "2ByteCharactor" by "LEFT$" and "RIGHT$" and the inconvenience is caused.

Are there DLL etc. that evade this?
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TDK
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2007 06:39
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Can you give us an example?

Not knowing exactly what the problem is, I can only suggest the use of Len() to check the length.

But as strings are made up of bytes, where does the 2 byte character come from?

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dark coder
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2007 06:54
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I believe he means Unicode characters which I don't think DBP supports.

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IanM
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2007 15:36
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He could also mean multi-byte characters - I don't know exactly how Lee implemented multi-language support in DBPro.

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Raven
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 07:09
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Lee used the ascii character set system, to keep it compatible with Windows 9x

Although that seems quite redundant now given 9.0c doesn't work on Windows 98, and Windows ME can use Unicode natively.
They really should've changed it from multi-byte to unicode a long time ago, as providing support for non-english languages is a pain without creating your own system for it.

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IanM
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 19:11
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Too late!
Unicode isn't a switch - it needs major changes to existing code to implement, not just a compiler-flag change. There is so much code out there that assumes 8 bit (DBPro code, and plug-ins) that would break even if you did manage to switch over without breaking DBPro itself.

Basically, it was too late as soon as Lee started coding with the intention of allowing DBPro to run on Win9x platforms.

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Oryaaaaa
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Posted: 5th Sep 2007 16:43
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Hi IamM, How are U?

Kuro said "have a Unicode", I think "LATE!!" too.
but
I dont develop unicode Applications by PB.

in Display procedure
Limit ASCII charctor code? (AtoZ). kuro says mean
"have a No Check charactors"

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