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varuag
varuag

Reputation: 81

How to add Ⓒ symbol in resource file to support in Japanese Windows OS.

I need to  add copy right symbol Ⓒ in my resource file(.rc). When I add this symbol in '.rc' file and run the app on Japanese OS, it displays ? symbol instead. Below is my code line.

LTEXT "Ⓒ 2017 Comapny Inc. All rights reserved.",IDC_COPYRIGHT,7,30,211,8

I tried editing this symbol on Japanese locale machine machine but still the issue was not resolved. Ⓒ symbol gets converted to ? symbol when I save the .rc file. On Japanese machine I see the above code as below:

LTEXT "? 2017 Comapny Inc. All rights reserved.",IDC_COPYRIGHT,7,30,211,8

 Please share your idea how this can be done 

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2202

Answers (1)

bobince
bobince

Reputation: 536329

The ANSI code page for the Japanese Windows locale is 932 (similar to Shift-JIS). This encoding does not include the copyright sign (U+00A9 ©), nor the character you mention above (circled letter C, U+24D2 ⓒ, which is probably not what you wanted). If you are compiling resource files in code page 932, you will have to use plain ASCII (c).

Alternatively if you can convert the RC file to an encoding that supports Unicode you can use any character you like. This could be UTF-16LE (the encoding that Notepad misleadingly describes as “Unicode”), or UTF-8 if you include #pragma code_page(65001) (but then you have to make sure to not edit in the resource editor which will mess that up).

Upvotes: 5

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