I am displaying Japanese characters in a VB6 application with the system locale set to Japan and the language for non Unicode programs as Japanese. A call to GetACP() correctly returns 932 for Japanese. When I insert the Japanese strings into my controls they display as “ƒAƒtƒŠƒJ‚Ì—‰¤” rather than “アフリカの女王”. If I manually set the Font.Charset to 128 then they display correctly.
What is the best way to determine the correct Charset for a given LCID in VB6?
Expanding Bob's answer, here's some code to get the current default charset.
Private Const LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT As Long = &H800
Private Const LOCALE_IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE As Long = &H1004
Private Const TCI_SRCCODEPAGE = 2
Private Type FONTSIGNATURE
fsUsb(4) As Long
fsCsb(2) As Long
End Type
Private Type CHARSETINFO
ciCharset As Long
ciACP As Long
fs As FONTSIGNATURE
End Type
Private Declare Function GetLocaleInfo Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetLocaleInfoA" ( _
ByVal Locale As Long, _
ByVal LCType As Long, _
ByVal lpLCData As String, _
ByVal cchData As Long _
) As Long
Private Declare Function TranslateCharsetInfo Lib "GDI32" ( _
lpSrc As Long, _
lpcs As CHARSETINFO, _
ByVal dwFlags As Long _
) As Long
Public Function GetCharset() As Long
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Dim outlen As Long
Dim lCodepage As Long
Dim outBuffer As String
Dim cs As CHARSETINFO
outBuffer = String$(10, vbNullChar)
outlen = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, LOCALE_IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE, outBuffer, Len(outBuffer))
If outlen > 0 Then
lCodepage = val(Left$(outBuffer, outlen - 1))
If TranslateCharsetInfo(ByVal lCodepage, cs, TCI_SRCCODEPAGE) Then
GetCharset = cs.ciCharset
End If
End If
Exit Function
ErrorHandler:
GetCharset = 0
End Function