Why Russian string displays as question mark ?

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Hi My C++ code load a Russian string from resource file but it displays as question mark (????)

str;
str.LoadString(REQSETTINGS);

How can I get the string with Russians text?
Thanks for any help

Posted 1-Apr-14 4:50am

merh

Updated 1-Apr-14 4:53am

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Steve44 1-Apr-14 12:14pm

Some more details are necessary to help you with this. What type is the string: ASCII or Unicode? If it is ASCII, have you selected the appropriate codepage? Does your font contain the Cyrillic letters for rendering? Did you look at str in the debugger? Does it contain the expected characters?
More details are always helpful as we don't see your development environment.
Thanks!

merh 2-Apr-14 4:49am

I found the problem in "Regional and language Options" under Standards and Formats. I has to be changed to Russian and the question marks are removed. The string loads correctly the string from the resorce file but when the string is added to the tab, it shows strange characters which are not Russians.
str.LoadString(REQSETTINGS);
nTab = m_tabWnd.AddViewTab(RUNTIME_CLASS(CRequiredSettingsView), str, pContext);
m_ptrRequiredSettingsView = (CRequiredSettingsView*) m_tabWnd.GetTabClient(nTab);
m_tabWnd.SetTabIcon(nTab, IDI_Page);
m_ptrRequiredSettingsView->SetFileControler(m_pFileControler);

Thanks for any Help
merh

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Solution 1

This is probably because you are not using UNICODE. See following link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dybsewaf.aspx[^]

Posted 1-Apr-14 6:16am

Rage

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merh · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-02T03:15:00

Solution 2

By changeing the font.
CFont font;
setlocale(LC_ALL, "Russian");
font.CreateFont(-11, 0, 0, 0, FW_NORMAL, 0, 0, 0, DEFAULT_CHARSET, OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS,
CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH, "Tahoma");

Posted 2-Apr-14 3:15am

merh