RE: putty can shape now..

["ahmad khalifa" <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com>]

> > From: "ahmad khalifa" <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com>
> > when u call ExtTextOut with the flag ETO_GLYPH_INDEX, the input string 
> > lpString, is not a
> > Unicode string oran ASCII string, its an INDEX string, that means (from 
> > what i understand) that
> > lpString is a Double-Byte string of Glyph indices relative to the current 
> > selected font in the given
> > display context...

> well i tried to do what's in this email ( i didn't do what you said about 
> converting to CP-1256 ) and when i tested Putty i got arabic letters that 
> are not shaped and not orders and the wrong thing was not the same letters 
> i should see, for example instead of having Ó Ç á Çã i got Ø Ú Ù  so i 
> think that there is something i am missing, another thing that i really 
> need to work on is the indexing thing in letters can someone forward me to 
> a web site that explains the UTF-8 at least so that i know what i am deal 
> with...

well u only get the letters (tah) and (zah), because they are 0xd8 and 0xd9 
in  CP-1256...
and as i said GetCharacterPlacement expects CP-1256 , and you give it 
Unicode which is 2 bytes and
usually starts with 0xd8 and 0xd9..... so you have to add the funtion 
WideCharToMultiByte() before
GetCharacterPlacement()....

just merge the 2 emails i sent u before...

ak...

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