ppDBText in unicode

rbuser

Hi,

I recently noticed a weird thing on my reports when trying to print
fields having chinese or korean characters.
If I use a ppDBText as the output type, it would print only squares (and
numbers if any), but when I replace it by ppDBMemo it prints just fine.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a real issue.

I'm using MS SQL Server 2005 which returns unicode characters properly
but in this case the DB doesn't really matter aslong as it displays the
correct value using ppDBMemo.

Regards,

nardmoseley

To display Unicode characters you need...

Delphi 2009 and RB 11

Use a Font that supports Unicode

Make sure you have the relevant Windows Language support installed (this
varies by Windows version)

For future questions, please include your environment info: Windows version,
Delphi version, RB version, etc.



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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
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rbuser

I'm using D2009 with RB 11 on Windows XP SP3.
As far as I'm aware of both Arial and Tahoma support unicode.

rbuser

Thanks for the quick reply.

Here is the missing info:

My OS is Windows XP SP3,
I'm using D2009 with RB Enterprise 11.04

The font I was using to display the desired text in unicode is Arial for
both ppDBText and ppDBMemo. In the meantime I figured out that by
changing Arial to Tahoma the ppDBText displayed the correct string in
unicode aswell. Still weird why for Arial it didn't work?

Regards,
- Sandor -

nicocizik

Hi Sandor,

I believe the standard Arial Truetype font does not support Unicode. There
is a Arial Unicode MS font available. Perhaps this would give you the
results you are after.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial_Unicode

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com