I was writing a text editor following theForger's Win32 API tutorial. I didn't have much trouble following it and making it work.
However, since the macros defaulted to -A functions, the text was being written and displayed in my system's codepage (Windows-1252). Since I had the UTF-8 checkbox enabled on my computer, I tried making my program work with that encoding so I could write any character, and while the text it showed was UTF-8 encoded, the text I wrote into it was in Windows-1252.
Here's the code that creates the edit control:
switch (message) { case WM_CREATE: { HFONT default_font; HWND editor_hdl; editor_hdl = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, "EDIT", "", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL | WS_HSCROLL | ES_MULTILINE | ES_AUTOVSCROLL | ES_AUTOHSCROLL, 0, 0, 100, 100, hwnd, reinterpret_cast<HMENU>(ctrls::IDC_MAIN_EDIT), GetModuleHandle(nullptr), nullptr); // Error handling if(!editor_hdl){ MessageBox(hwnd, "There was an error while creating your paper sheet, program will now close.","Oh no", MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR); SendMessage(hwnd, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0); } default_font = reinterpret_cast<HFONT>(GetStockObject(SYSTEM_FONT)); SendMessage(editor_hdl, WM_SETFONT, reinterpret_cast<WPARAM>(default_font), MAKELPARAM(FALSE, 0)); //... } break; //... } If I write an international character in this panel with my keyboard, like:
ñ
this appears
�
I then saved the text and opened it with Notepad++ using Windows-1252 as the encoding and the ñ displayed correctly.
The function dedicated to loading seems to work fine, as it's able to load UTF-8 encoded text files into the edit panel with no problem.
I used MinGW as my compiler, and Code::Blocks as my IDE. I added -fexec-charset=UTF-8 and -finput-charset=UTF-8 as compiler flags. However, I don't think they made my project work with UTF-8, as it was still UTF-8 after recompiling without those flags. Honestly, I don't know what would've enabled UTF-8 into my application.