Help! StringToByteArray (StrConv Replaecment)

hello..

as you know StrConv don't work fine when "language for Non-Unicode characters" option is set to any thing other than english.

so, if you want to convert string to byte array using this it won't work
bytTEMP = StrConv(strTEMP, vbFromUnicode)

one solution i found after 4 hours of searching was putting LocaleID parameter
specific for the non-unicode language you set..

so this way it will work..
bytTEMP = StrConv(strTEMP, vbFromUnicode, LocalID)

you can get your LocalID from this list :
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221435

but this solution is not practical since there is no function as i know to retrieve LocalID and pass it to the StrConv before Converting

any help will be greatly appreciated

These two APIs may be of use. They both return 1033 for my box (USA, English)

Code:

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Private Declare Function GetUserDefaultLCID Lib "kernel32.dll" () As Long
Private Declare Function GetSystemDefaultLCID Lib "kernel32.dll" () As Long

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It is far from clear what you really want to accomplish.

Even if you do a conversion using StrConv() and a different non-default locale all that gets you is the ANSI characters that the String maps to for that locale. What do you plan to do with them after that?

Post #2 here shows how to retrieve the current user or system default locale, but using those does the same thing as letting the locale argument default.

Ther is no API call to "guess what you mean and return the locale." The LCID is the way you say what Unicode to ANSI mapping you want.


I'm not sure why it took you 4 hours to find this since it is right there in the VB6 manual, but without some explanation of what you want to accomplish I don't think we can help you much.

I'm guessing this has something to do with either data persisted to disk or communicated over the Internet. In either case you might consider using the native format in VB6 (UTF-16) or converting to another Unicode encoding (UTF-8?).

Write your code to work with Unicode data and you have no problem. You should use StrConv only if you know you're dealing with ANSI data of user's locale. Using it for anything else is prone to errors.

Basically this statement is the same as the UTF-16 or UTF-8 suggestion by dilettante.