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Somewhere along the way...
Aug. 16th, 2006 02:00 pm...something in Windows XP got smarter, as far as fonts are concerned.
Some years ago, I sat down with a copy of Borland C++ and created a Windows application that allowed me to rapidly search through text-based glossaries where each term occupied one line. Although the application was not sophisticated enough to decline (or "undecline") Russian words the way Multitran can, its ability to accept several strings in a query and return all terms that contained all of the strings is still something I like using.
However, at the time I wrote the app, characters on personal computers were strictly 8-bit items, with Unicode (and UTF-8) just starting to peek over the horizon. As Windows moved toward multiple-byte characters, I noticed that pasting a string that had been cut from a document or a browser into my application resulted in pasting a series of question marks, as the OS was not capable of figuring out how to stuff two-byte characters into a field that expected one-byte characters.
Well, just a few minutes ago, I accidentally discovered that the OS that came with my new VAIO is able to figure out that trick, and that pasting a string into my app's query list box works just fine.
Call it progress.
Cheers...
UPDATE: Okay, so it turns out this was the result of having fiddled with settings. Still, I'm happy.
Some years ago, I sat down with a copy of Borland C++ and created a Windows application that allowed me to rapidly search through text-based glossaries where each term occupied one line. Although the application was not sophisticated enough to decline (or "undecline") Russian words the way Multitran can, its ability to accept several strings in a query and return all terms that contained all of the strings is still something I like using.
However, at the time I wrote the app, characters on personal computers were strictly 8-bit items, with Unicode (and UTF-8) just starting to peek over the horizon. As Windows moved toward multiple-byte characters, I noticed that pasting a string that had been cut from a document or a browser into my application resulted in pasting a series of question marks, as the OS was not capable of figuring out how to stuff two-byte characters into a field that expected one-byte characters.
Well, just a few minutes ago, I accidentally discovered that the OS that came with my new VAIO is able to figure out that trick, and that pasting a string into my app's query list box works just fine.
Call it progress.
Cheers...
UPDATE: Okay, so it turns out this was the result of having fiddled with settings. Still, I'm happy.
