[RESOLVED] Font problem

[ajames]

How would I use characters other than Latin characters in VB6? I tried to use cyrillic, and the caption just showed up as "?".

[Hack]

Do you have the fonts you wish to use installed on your machine?

If so, they should show up in the Font dialog box.

[ajames]

I am using arial unicode MS, which (normally) lets me use cyrillic.

EDIT: As per usual, VB help didnt help. At all.

[RhinoBull]

"VB Help" has nothing to do with what you're after...

Multilanguage support isn't easy to implement in VB6. Perhaps the following link will give you some idea:

Internationalization with Visual Basic

Good luck.

[ajames]

So even If I want to do something very simple, like displaying different symbols in a text box, i would require thousands of lines of code?

P.S. I'm not the sort of person who buys vb Books

[RhinoBull]

... I'm not the sort of person who buys vb Books

In that case you're on your own, man.

[RhinoBull]

... would require thousands of lines of code?...

I wouldn't say so although it is an advanced stuff.

[ajames]

And there is definately no option in prefrences to change the language of the form? (or anything similar?)

i.e. could someone attempt to post code?

[Hack]

And there is definately no option in prefrences to change the language of the form? (or anything similar?)

No. Language support is set at the OS level.

Using an english keyboard, you could certainly type words in a different language, but if English is your default language, then you do not have any of the special character support that other languages require.

[ajames]

So can anyone give me a guideline how to do it? Preferably free? That's what vbforums is for, right?

[dglienna]

I think Merri has a few controls that can accept Unicode. I saw a link to it the other day, but didn't save it.

[ajames]

1) merri? who is merri? Who and where can i find him/her? Is s/he on vbf?

2) so far i have enabled my computer to change the keyboard to cyrillic. (дугуиыф etc.)

[si_the_geek]

1) Yep, merri is the optimisation guru, as well as the creator of lots of useful code/controls.

Here is his explanation of unicode in VB, and his controls can be found in the CodeBank (a quick search for threads there started by him will find them).

[ajames]

That control (button) seemed to work. Has anyone got a control for unicode textboxes?

[Hack]

That control (button) seemed to work. Has anyone got a control for unicode textboxes?

Here is another Merri post. See Post #6

[zaza]

Is there some problem with RTB's?

[ajames]

Text boxes seem to work, now i just need to use merri's uniCommand buttons and I will have a working program!

Thanks to everyone for your support: You've just saved me about £40!