Dear Alimjan;
In order to support Uighur on VB in Arabic Script you need
Arabic Enabled Microsft Widnows 98 and an OpenType Font
that support Uighur, but with certin limitations.
If you are interseted to Support Uighur on Arabic Windows 98
please contact off the list.
N.R.Liwal
liwal@liwal.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael (michka) Kaplan <michka@trigeminal.com>
To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: Thank's your for helpme!
> You did not mention you were trying to do this from VB.
> VB is a MUCH tougher case, and I think you will find that you will not
have
> much luck here, at all, with intrinsic controls. This is because in
VB4,VB5,
> and VB6 the forms package does NOT support Unicode, and thus the
> default system code page must support the characters. Since Uighur
requries
> many Arabic script characters that do not exist on any code page, you
would
> need Unicode controls (none of which the VB intrinsic controls are), or
> owner draw controls that use Unicode (an ansswer which is a bit beyond the
> scope of a newsgroup question!).
>
> GB2312 (cp936) does not contain these characters, and even Arabic (cp1256)
> does not contain all of them. Microsoft is definitely out of the "create a
> new code page for every lang that comes along" phase. The answer is to use
> Unicode, though if you ar in VB you need to overcome limitations due to
the
> fact that *they* do not get the hint here until VB7 (which is only in Beta
> 1).
>
> michka
>
> a new book on internationalization in VB at
> http://www.i18nWithVB.com/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alimjan" <alimvb@263.net>
> To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:18 AM
> Subject: Thank's your for helpme!
> > Help me!?
> > hello, Dear unicode list item's!
> >
> > I read unicode fonts characters in visual basic6.0 (windows98 chinese
> version) not succusift!!??
> >
> > Send to me VB6.0 Sample Code (HelpYou.Vbp) and unicode fonttype
> (HelpYou.TTF) sample!??(Windows98/Chinese Version)
> >
> > Thank's your for to help...
> >
> > Email: alimvb@263.net (Uighur VB programmer)
> Urumqi.XinJiang.China
> >
> >
>
>
>
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