Which Visual Basic version

Penner pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Wed Jan 15 11:50:00 EST 2003


A question for Peter Constable or other Visual Basic experts: How well
does VB.Net handle Unicode Hebrew?

I checked out the free 3-hour online demo of Visual Studio to see if
it's worth the upgrade from VB6 for Right-to-Left support for Hebrew.
The controls I tried (textbox and listbox) accepted the Hebrew Unicode
characters I pasted in, but did not display them right-to-left, even
when I selected the right-to-left option in the appearances properties,
and even when I chose Lucida Sans Unicode as a font. This surprised me.
I thought VB.Net would display the Hebrew properly. It sorted the list
correctly. 

Did I do something wrong? I don't imagine the problem was that I'm still
running Win98SE, is it? Has anyone else had good experiences with VB.Net
and Hebrew Unicode? The controls I am especially interested in are
textbox, listbox, and datagrid.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter_Constable at sil.org [mailto:Peter_Constable at sil.org] 

> No one has commented on VB: if you're working with Unicode, 
> you might want to switch to VB.Net. VB through v. 6 used 
> Unicode, but for all UI in controls and in certain other 
> contexts, text was handled in terms of codepages. VB.Net 
> gives you the control you really need.




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