Unicode vs Ansii documents

csterg · Post by **csterg** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:54 pm

Hello Sergey,
i would like to ask whether there is any overhead in RV when adding or rendering unicode text.
Is there any functionallity that is not supported in Win9x when using unicode methods? (AddNLW...).

Is there any reason NOT to use only the unicode methods to add text and build a document?

I ask these questions because i need to render both ansii and unicode text and it would be much easier if i handled everything as unicode internally. I just want to be sure that there is no overhead and there will be no problem in older versions of windows.

Thanks,
Costas

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:34 pm

Only 2 features are not supported with Unicode on Win9x systems:
- bidirected text (right to left Hebrew or Arabic)
- all-caps option

Overhead? Only larger file sizes (and memory usage - may be significant only for HUGE documents)

If your application uses Unicode, I recommend to build completely Unicode documents.

csterg · Post by **csterg** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:07 am

This is just wonderful!

Thanks