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Codejock Developer Community : Greek Strings in non unicode app http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:48:14 +0000 Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:47:48 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=23945 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : I don'tknow why this works...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77638&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77638 Author: sdancer75
Subject: 23945
Posted: 05 March 2020 at 8:47am

[Solved]

I don't know why this works and shows correctly the Greek characters, but the CXTPTaskDialog derived dialog should be called with TRUE in the 1st parameter to force use the ComCtl32.dll version of the task dialog. Unfortunately this concerns only for Vista and newer OSs

For example

CXTPTaskDialog tDialog(this);

tDialog.DoModal(TRUE);

]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:47:48 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77638&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77638 <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : Another paradox is when I use...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77637&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77637 Author: sdancer75
Subject: 23945
Posted: 05 March 2020 at 7:32am

Another paradox is when I use the debug executable I can see Greek characters in CXTPTaskDialog but when I use release executable I get gibberish instead.

The character set in the General Settings of the project are both set to "Not set". What seems to be the problem here?

]]> Thu, 05 Mar 2020 07:32:58 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77637&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77637 <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : mgampi wrote:In Visual Studio...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77607&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77607 Author: sdancer75
Subject: 23945
Posted: 02 February 2020 at 5:39am

mgampi wrote:

In Visual Studio IDE you can choose the file encoding when you call "Save as...". Just press the down arrow of the save button and select the correct encoding according your codepage 1253.

You can use Notepad++ for example to test the current encoding of your file and you can change the encoding if it's wrong using the "Encoding" main menu item of the same editor.

Hope this helps!

This project is pretty old and I am using VS2008. For *.rc files the option "Save as" is disabled, but it works with all other files.

So, I used Notepad++. I confirm that this is an ANSI file and I choose Greek 1253 as character encoding, before I save the file. Inside the *.rc file I can see without problems the Greek characters as well as inside the Visual Studio String Table.

No matter what, everytime I open once again the file under Notepad++, it reports ANSI but character encoding is turned back to default which is Greek ISO 8859-7.

I also changed the *.rc file to

#ifdef _WIN32

LANGUAGE LANG_GREEK, SUBLANG_GREEK_GREECE

#pragma code_page(1253)

#endif //_WIN32

I compiled and tested the code below. No difference at all. Using CStringW it works. To be honest, I am not sure what exactly is going on here but I assume that VS2008 ignores the Greek character encoding?

CString strFormat;

strFormat.LoadString(136);

]]> Sun, 02 Feb 2020 05:39:36 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77607&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77607 <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : mgampi wrote:...and another...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77606&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77606 Author: sdancer75
Subject: 23945
Posted: 02 February 2020 at 5:13am

mgampi wrote:

...and another hint:

the correct order of statements in .rc2 file is

#define _XTP_RESOURCE_LANGUAGE el

#include "XTToolkitPro.rc"

First define the required language and the include the .rc file

I already used this order in my projects.

]]> Sun, 02 Feb 2020 05:13:03 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77606&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77606 <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : ...and another hint:the correct...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77605&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77605 Author: mgampi
Subject: 23945
Posted: 01 February 2020 at 11:25am

...and another hint:

the correct order of statements in .rc2 file is

#define _XTP_RESOURCE_LANGUAGE el

#include "XTToolkitPro.rc"

First define the required language and the include the .rc file

]]> Sat, 01 Feb 2020 11:25:47 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77605&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77605 <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : In Visual Studio IDE you can choose...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77604&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77604 Author: mgampi
Subject: 23945
Posted: 01 February 2020 at 11:21am

In Visual Studio IDE you can choose the file encoding when you call "Save as...". Just press the down arrow of the save button and select the correct encoding according your codepage 1253.

You can use Notepad++ for example to test the current encoding of your file and you can change the encoding if it's wrong using the "Encoding" main menu item of the same editor.

Hope this helps!

]]> Sat, 01 Feb 2020 11:21:05 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77604&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77604 <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : mgampi wrote:WHat happens if...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77603&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77603 Author: sdancer75
Subject: 23945
Posted: 01 February 2020 at 4:27am

mgampi wrote:

WHat happens if you try CStringW::LoadString instead of CString::LoadString (which indeed takes CStringA::LoadString())?

Testing with

CStringW strFormat;

strFormat.LoadString(136);

In this way it works just fine.

But what this exactly means? That my String Table is saved as a Unicode file and Compiler can not manage this?

Regards,

]]> Sat, 01 Feb 2020 04:27:26 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77603&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77603 <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : What happens if you try CStringW::LoadString...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77600&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77600 Author: mgampi
Subject: 23945
Posted: 30 January 2020 at 3:43am

What happens if you try CStringW::LoadString instead of CString::LoadString (which indeed takes CStringA::LoadString())?
]]> Thu, 30 Jan 2020 03:43:56 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77600&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77600 <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : mgampi wrote:Which encoding...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77597&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77597 Author: sdancer75
Subject: 23945
Posted: 29 January 2020 at 9:30am

mgampi wrote:

Which encoding are you using for your .rc files? Perhaps that's the reason.

What do you get when you call CString::LoadString()? Is the content ok or not?

My settings

inside *.rc2

#define _XTP_RESOURCE_LANGUAGE el

inside *.rc

LANGUAGE LANG_GREEK, SUBLANG_DEFAULT

#pragma code_page(1253)

CString::LoadString()

I get gibberish instead of Greeks but String Table is notated as [Greek]

]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:30:34 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77597&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77597 <![CDATA[Greek Strings in non unicode app : Ah, and don't forget to check...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77595&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77595 Author: mgampi
Subject: 23945
Posted: 29 January 2020 at 5:41am

Ah, and don't forget to check the #pragma codepage in your rc files
]]> Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:41:06 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=23945&PID=77595&title=greek-strings-in-non-unicode-app#77595