Comments on: Visual Basic 6, ActiveX and Unicode

By: Kristian

Kristian — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:34:43 +0000

That is just fantastic. Had been fighting this damn issue all day, and was also about to give up on it, when i found this.
I was trying to read an ascii file and then write it out to another file (RTF format) and it kept adding 2 bytes in the start of the document, so Word or Wordpad did not like it anymore.

So from reading you recipe i got the idea to just advance the position 2 bytes like this, and it works wonders.

objStream.Position = 2
GetFile = objStream.ReadText

By: Nico Westerdale

Nico Westerdale — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:29:02 +0000

If you want to make it easy to support UniCode in Visual Basic then take a look at the UniToolbox control suite which replaces all the common VB controls with UniCode aware versions:

http://www.iconico.com/UniToolbox

By: Geoff Teale

Geoff Teale — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:35:51 +0000

Interesting to see how you got around this one.

I still think you need to make a case to loose this legacy code though