Rich Edit Control Does Not Support Unicode

Last reviewed: September 29, 1995
Article ID: Q128558

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API) included with:

    - Microsoft Windows NT versions 3.5 and 3.51
    - Microsoft Windows 95 version 4.0

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 reference words: 3.50 4.00
KBCategory: kbui
KBSubcategory: UsrCtl

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Last reviewed: September 29, 1995
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