The tB native controls and source window all support Unicode.

Definitely need more developers from around the world to sort out bugs with the wonky VB6 Unicode implementation though. You might want to post a source file so Wayne can take a look at it; it's not necessarily easy to create examples with all the exact issues of VB6 without an actual Chinese installation/OS.

With control transparency, I think there's some limits in that for compatibility purposes, they have to be based on the same underlying Windows controls, so support for transparency is limited. The form itself can be transparent (including alpha blended with opacity from 0-100 setting), unlike VB6, at least.