INFO: Rich Edit Control Does Not Support Unicode

ID: Q128558

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK), on platform(s):
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows NT, versions 3.5, 3.51

SUMMARY

The Rich Edit control included with Windows 95 and Windows NT version 3.51 does not support Unicode.

For a Unicode application to use the Rich Edit control, it must convert any strings passed to the control to ASCII text. This includes strings used in the FINDTEXT structure and the TEXTRANGE structure.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbCtrl kbNTOS351 kbRichEdit kbGrpUser kbWinOS95 kbWinOS98
Version : WINDOWS:95
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo