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Differences between Unicode and Non-Unicode OCX?

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Topic: Differences between Unicode and Non-Unicode OCX?

Posted By: Alexey2
Subject: Differences between Unicode and Non-Unicode OCX?
Date Posted: 18 November 2008 at 2:35pm

What differences between Unicode and Non-Unicode OCX?

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Posted By: JantjeKeizer
Date Posted: 19 November 2008 at 3:30am

In short: The ability to print special characters like Chinese etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode - 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.

Posted By: Alexey2
Date Posted: 19 November 2008 at 4:02am

Why not to use unicode version for all cases then?

Posted By: JantjeKeizer
Date Posted: 19 November 2008 at 4:39am

Because Windows 95/98 don't natively support Unicode.
Ergo: it simply won't work

Posted By: Alexey2
Date Posted: 19 November 2008 at 5:07am

thank you for explanation.

Posted By: mdoubson
Date Posted: 13 January 2009 at 10:11pm

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.