Urgent Help Unicode Support

i make an app which can lock the file but it has also a default password and this default password is in unicode for example "اس ا و ت و" and it is written in app
it working correctly if target system has installed URDU Language on it but not worked with others . Password is inside the app why it is not working with other systems if there is any way to do so ?

Try using globalization and localization , if this does not work,
try distributing the language pack within the installation file(s).

its hard to distribute the language pack any other way ?

What is the user entering if he can't enter "اس ا و ت و" ?

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Originally Posted by hackerspk

its hard to distribute the language pack any other way ?

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eh???

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Originally Posted by Half

What is the user entering if he can't enter "اس ا و ت و" ?

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he is entering this string but not accepted by app , in reply app give msgbox "wrong password"

How can he enter the string if he does not have the language installed? What I mean is you can't
enter 'фгресфхз' with your keyboard for example when you don't have cyrillic support installed.

So is your client trying a copy & paste or how is he doing it?

First you need to identify the codes for the unicode symbols using the windows charmap (run -> charmap) or with code. Then enter these codes through the numpad of your keyboard using one of the suggsted ways here.

What I am saying is that you can first try entering the password on your computer using unicode hex code and if that works tell the client to do the same.

How are you saving/loading the password? If you stored it in ASCII it's going to be impossible to make it work without asking the user to install that language pack. If you used a Unicode encoding, it's difficult but possible to enter characters using charmap like Half mentioned. But it's *only* going to work if everything is in Unicode.

If it really is about ASCII and not unicode, the task gets easier, not impossible.

Let's say we have the string س ا و ت و on a computer whose codepage (extended ascii) is Urdu. Let's say the user's codepage is Russian.

If the ascii code for the char س is 171 in the Urdu codepage then the user has to enter the Russian char whose code is also 171 which is «

Then comes ا, if its code is 139, the user enters what 139 in Russian is: ‹

For و if it is 221, the same in Russian will be Э

Then comes ت. If its code is 205, Russian equivalent is Н.

And again Э for و

So a Russian user enters « ‹ Э Н Э and the resulting codes are the same.

Now I don't know the actual codes of the Urdu string but they can be found through the Asc (TheChar) function in vb.

Code:

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  Dim pass As String
        Dim textfile As New StreamReader("PAf")
        pass = textfile.ReadLine()
        If pass = txtPass.text Then
            textinfo.text = textfile.ReadToEnd
 Else
            MsgBox("Password Incorrect")
        End If

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user have a text file and he want to read it but admin ser a unicode password he enter the password but he got the msgbox "Password Incorrect" he also use copy & paste method but all in vain but if the password is normal like "mypass" then its working fine

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Originally Posted by Half

If it really is about ASCII and not unicode, the task gets easier, not impossible.

Let's say we have the string س ا و ت و on a computer whose codepage (extended ascii) is Urdu. Let's say the user's codepage is Russian.

If the ascii code for the char س is 171 in the Urdu codepage then the user has to enter the Russian char whose code is also 171 which is «

Then comes ا, if its code is 139, the user enters what 139 in Russian is: ‹

For و if it is 221, the same in Russian will be Э

Then comes ت. If its code is 205, Russian equivalent is Н.

And again Э for و

So a Russian user enters « ‹ Э Н Э and the resulting codes are the same.

Now I don't know the actual codes of the Urdu string but they can be found through the Asc (TheChar) function in vb.

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ok i will check this one i have ASC Chra for urdu