[windev] Problem reading text files

[Chris Becke]

Oh,
How are you getting the text into the CHTMLView control?

ActiveX controls mostly have unicode interfaces, so any non unicode API to inject the text is probably going to parse the text as ANSI (i.e. whatever your systems default codepage for non unicode applications is) for the purpose of converting to unicode that will then be sent to the control.


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From: truckleaj-windev at yahoo.co.uk [mailto:truckleaj-windev at yahoo.co.uk]
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To: David Little; Chris Becke; Windows Developers (Mailing List)
Subject: Re: [windev] Problem reading text files

Hi

It isn't a font matter. Arial covers the basic accents. Also, if I set it to the Arial Unicode MS I get a different symbol showing.

It only seems to work if I use the windows-nnnn charset values.

Andrew

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Subject: Re: [windev] Problem reading text files

I think you have to choose a font with all the correct characters.  Try
Arial Unicode MS as a test.  Every font won't have those characters, and
missing characters are rendered as boxes.  I don't think it's a UTF8
issue.

For a test, try to render http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html into
your CHTMLView box.  It has the same phrase in 100 different languages.

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Have you set the meta-tag specifying the HTML encoding to be UTF-8 ?

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >

The HTTP specification specifically says that HTML documents with no
meta tag need to be parsed as the traditional western EU (windowsnnnn)
codepage.

CHTMLView should be doing little more than instantiating a
Shell.Explorer ActiveX control - so im not sure why it would render fine
in IE7 but not the HTMLView...

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To: Serge Wautier; WinDev
Subject: Re: [windev] Problem reading text files

The other problem I have is that CHtmlView doesn't seem to like the
UFT-8 encoding very much.

If I set the file as that, including the declaration line at the top,
and right-click the view the encoding is set to UTF-8 but the italian
accents show as boxes.

The only way I have got the variuous languages to work is by using a
charset of windowsnnnn accordingly. Then the HTMLView renders the
accents.

But if was my understanding that UTF-8 was what we should be using these
days. The same file renders fine in IE7, not not in the web-browser
control. I tried to google for CHtmlView / encoding / utf-8 and couldn't
see anything about this.

So I have stayed with the relevant windowsnnnn values based upon the
language of my program UI.

Andrew
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