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Differences between Unicode and Non-Unicode OCX? |
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Alexey2 
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 Topic: Differences between Unicode and Non-Unicode OCX?Posted: 18 November 2008 at 2:35pm |
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What differences between Unicode and Non-Unicode OCX?
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JantjeKeizer
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Posted: 19 November 2008 at 3:30am |
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In short: The ability to print special characters like Chinese etc.
In long... Windows 98 and earlier don't have native support for printing special characters. So if you for example live in London and you deploy your application only in England and would like to have Windows 95/98 support, then choose non-Unicode. If you have language support and distribute your app around the globe, then drop 95/98 support and choose Unicode, or compile 2 versions. |
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Posted: 19 November 2008 at 4:02am |
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Why not to use unicode version for all cases then?
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Posted: 19 November 2008 at 4:39am |
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Because Windows 95/98 don't natively support Unicode.
Ergo: it simply won't work |
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Posted: 19 November 2008 at 5:07am |
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thank you for explanation. |
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 10:11pm |
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Why not to use unicode version for all cases then?
Because in unicode version each string will be double size. In previous times - not so cheap memory and so on - it have sense to save on memory footprint. Plus usually smaller also means faster.
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