Re: Russian Text & RichViewEdit

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Pieter E.

Posted: 09/28/2004 20:04:35

It works great!

Still I have a problem...

I use the following code:

void __fastcall TForm1::FormCreate(TObject *Sender)

{

RichViewEdit1->RTFReadProperties->UnicodeMode = rvruOnlyUnicode;

for(int i=0; i<RVStyle1->TextStyles->Count; i++)

{

RVStyle1->TextStyles->Items[i]->Unicode = true;

//RVStyle1->TextStyles->Items[i]->Charset = RUSSIAN_CHARSET;

}

RichViewEdit1->Format();

}

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

When I copy text from the clipboard or IE and I start typing, everything

works. I can type English text in the Russian text.

But when I start the application without any text, and I try to type English

text, I get strange squares. (like this �X�X�X�X�X�X�X�X)

Do you have a clue?

Thank you.

(It doesn't matter if it is in Russian of English).

"Sergey Tkachenko" <[email protected]> wrote:

>The answer "why it happens" depends on which page you copied from.

>Depending on this, data may be pasted either in RTF or in plain text format.

>If content is pasted as RTF, '?????' is not normal, because RTF contains

>language information.

>If content is pasted as plain text, '?????' is normal when pasting in

>non-Unicode editors in Win2k.

>Technical Information:

>In Unicode, if you know a character code, you know what this character is.

>In non-Unicode text, you must also know the text language. Win2k assumes

>that the language of the copied text is a language of keyboard at the moment

>of copying. I believe you have English keyboard layout. So Win2k assumes

>that the text language is English, and tries to convert the copied

>characters to English. It's not an application's, it's a Window's feature.

>You can get the copied text yourself as Clipboard.AsText, you'll see it

>contains '??????????' instead of Russian characters.

>Solution:

>If you need a multilingual application, use Unicode in TRichView.

>For example, this "Accents" demo is Unicode.

>What to do:

>1) Set Unicode property of all text styles to True. In editing operations,

>all new styles are usually based on existing styles, so they automatically

>become Unicode.

>3) Set RichView.RTFReadProperties.UnicodeMode = rvruOnlyUnicode to prevent

>appearing non-Unicode characters when inserting/loading RTF

>4) If you have existing RVF files that you need to load, you need to convert

>them to Unicode (I can give code example)

>5) Find if you use GetItemText, SetItemText, AddNL, AddTextNL methods and

>replace them with GetItemTextA, SetItemTextA, AddNLATag, AddTextNLA

>6) Read topic about Unicode in RichView help file.

>Without using Unicode, Russian text can be pasted only

>- if at the moment of copying Russian keyboard layout is active (otherwise

>'?????????')

>- current RichViewEdit's text style has RUSSIAN_CHARSET (otherwise

>characters from the second half of the Western ANSI character codes will

>used instead of Russian)

>> (I use Win2k, TRichViewEdit v1.9.0.4, IE 6.0)

>> I create a new Form and drop a RVStyle and RichViewEdit on it.

>> The I compile the project, copy russian text from IE. The only characters

>> I see, get are '?'...

>> But when I compile the demo 'International Accents' and copy russian text

>> from IE, I get the Russian text copied.

>> What do I do wrong?

>> Thanks.

>> Pieter E.