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Unicode and RTL reading

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Hypetia

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Feb 26, 2003
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I am writing a plain text editor for an Asian language using unicode character set.

I am using Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library as the native controls of Visual Basic do not support unicode character rendering.

I have mapped the keystrokes to the characters according to my requirements, and everything is going fine except one problem.
The controls inside the above library do not support RTL (Right-to-Left) reading. The language I am using is a RTL language and I want my text box to go that way.

Should I call the Windows API to set the RTL reading style bit for my text box? But the controls in the said library do not expose an 'hWnd' property either. Should I look for some other controls?

What should I do?
Please help...
 
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