String to unicode conversion ... 1

[keithlages]

Can anyone elighten me as to the proper method for converting text accepted from an input box from a string to unicode?

This is what worked for VB6 but won't work for .NET

InputText = StrConv(InputText, vbUnicode)


Thanks for any help!

Keith

 

[chiph]

Keith -

No need - .NET is fully UTF-16 Unicode internally - strings, forms, everything. If you need to transfer that into UTF-8 (for sending through a HTTP POST or something), you can use the UTF8Encoding class from the framework.

VB6, BTW, was only Unicode UTF-16 in it's internals. Anything that got sent to a form was transformed into ANSI (yuck!). But you were OK writing to an ADO Command object, as long as your columns were NCHAR, NTEXT, etc.

Chip H.


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[keithlages]

Thanks Chip!

I thought I read something about that, I even noticed that there is no equivalent to StrConv in the Studio helps.

I'm trying to send input from a textbox to NetMessageBufferSend and it's just not working. I keep getting a malformed input error...

I'll keep at it though, thanks for the clarity!