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Differences between Unicode and Non-Unicode OCX? |
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Alexey2 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 24 September 2006 Status: Offline Points: 124 |
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What differences between Unicode and Non-Unicode OCX?
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JantjeKeizer ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 12 February 2008 Status: Offline Points: 70 |
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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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Alexey2 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 24 September 2006 Status: Offline Points: 124 |
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Why not to use unicode version for all cases then?
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JantjeKeizer ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 12 February 2008 Status: Offline Points: 70 |
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Because Windows 95/98 don't natively support Unicode.
Ergo: it simply won't work |
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Alexey2 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 24 September 2006 Status: Offline Points: 124 |
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thank you for explanation. |
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mdoubson ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 November 2008 Status: Offline Points: 1705 |
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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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