Urgent Help Unicode Support

[hackerspk]

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 ?

[sapator]

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

[hackerspk]

its hard to distribute the language pack any other way ?

[Half]

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

[sapator]

its hard to distribute the language pack any other way ?

eh???

[hackerspk]

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

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

[Half]

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.

[Sitten Spynne]

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.

[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.

[hackerspk]

   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

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

[hackerspk]

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.

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