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Does @SAKryukov or maybe anybody other knows where following article is available, maybe as PDF?
S. A. Kryukov, ‘Unicode Controls: What Can VCL Do?’, The Delphi Magazine, 116 (April 2005), p. 33-43
Thank you very much in advance.
Bruno
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The Delphi Magazine was discontinued after I published this article. I may need considerable time to dig it out.
But let me tall you: this is not actual anymore. At that time, it was really a cunning trick, to enable Unicode for VCL. which was not designed to support it; and the source code wasn't available. It was to avoid re-writing VCL controls, but to pin-point some methods in certain controls which had to be overridden or added. The problem was solved, but in later versions of Delphi, Unicode versions have been introduced. And look at modern Free Pascal with Lasarus. It gives you true cross-platform UI, very nice, and yet majorly compatible with old VCL. You just won't need my work.
If you have any questions, I'll try to answer.
One point for you: if you want to address to some member, you have to comment on any of one's posts, such as answer of comment. I did not get any notifications on your question. Somebody somehow notified me.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Dear Sergey
First of all, thank you very much that you responded.
Sorry, I thought if I write "@SAKryukov " in the message, that the CP system will send a notification to you.
Now your article I think, is more than enough actual for me. I need to do a "crazy" thing, means: I need to migrate an bcb6 application from Interbase to MSSQL. More or less an easy thing, ADO works still fine with the old bcb6. I did most of these work already.
But now I'm asking me also, whether I should also go the way to save the data in Unicode and I'm looking for a confirmation whether my thinkings concerning all the consequences are correct. And for this I think your article could be a very great help.
Thank you very much again.
Kind regards
Bruno
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My imagination...
At present everything in bcb6 is done with MBCS. That means:
- "Windows-ControlPanel-RegionalSetting-UniCode incompatible" needs to be setup correctly.
- Queries from DB do use TStringField. DBControls manage to show the data correctly (according to above mentioned regional settings)
New: Moving to UniCode DB
- All Queries using TStringField needs to be modified to use TWideStringField.
- While passing TWideStringField to DBControls, all WideStrings (Unicode) will implicitely converted to AnsiString (MBCS), by the "help" of WideString/AnsiString cooperation given by bcb6/VCL.
- Because of the point mentioned just above, still "Windows-ControlPanel-RegionalSetting-UniCode incompatible" needs to be setup correctly. This so that the above mentioned implicit conversion Wide/Ansi does work correctly.
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Do you really have to work with that badly obsolete Delphi where VCL was non-Unicode? I doubt it. At that time my work was a real saver, but right now all Delphi and Pascal libraries are all with proper Unicode support. My work did not do anything beyond the VCL UI, it has nothing to do with databases, etc. And it is inapplicable to modern Delphi libraries. Instead, I can try to answer your questions, but I haven't use Delphi for a long time. I have Free Pascal with Lazarus and recently worked with it and thing it's great.
And I seriously advise you to port code to Free Pascal. With Lazarus, it makes great cross-platform library and tools. (If not .NET with C#, of course. There is nothing closer to Object Pascal then C#. And yet, Delphi has some unique features non implemented in .NET; one of them is its fully-fledged metaclasses, a feature much more advanced then .NET reflection.)
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Bruno,
Finally, I got to my old archives and dug out this old Delphi article, with full source code and the article, will gladly deliver it to you.
Please respond; probably, one way would be if you ask a formal question.
The article title and publication data: "Unicode Controls: What Can VCL Do?", The Delphi Magazine, 116 (April 2005), p. 33-43
—SA
Sergey A Kryukov
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Bruno,
I got your message. I would prefer publishing at CodeProject. I can simply upload it to my area, so you could copy it all, but what do you think, would it be appropriate to publish it as a normal article, despite the pure historical value of it. 
I have it formatted to CodeProject style... Perhaps with added appropriate preface...
—SA
Sergey A Kryukov
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Bruno,
I got your message. I would prefer publishing at CodeProject. I can simply upload it to my area, so you could copy it all, but what do you think, would it be appropriate to publish it as a normal article, despite the pure historical value of it.
I have it formatted to CodeProject style... Perhaps with added appropriate preface...
Anyway, I don't want to delay you at this moment of time. You can take article and code here: S. A. Kryukov, UnicodeControls.zip, from: The Delphi Magazine, 116 (April 2005), p. 33-43 (54.1 KB).
Please send me some feedback, ask if you have any questions.
Again, remember that you can re-do all your old Delphi code to Free Pascal with Lazarus and get rid of all these problems.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Dear Sergey
Thank you so much for your help. Meanwhile I posted a question, please answer if you like.
BTW: Publish it as an article would be very nice. I don't think I'm the only one who has to fight with something like this.... recognizing this in Praxis 
Bruno
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(as reference to OG's post from below)
Today XKCD's 'game' is based on a grid of 179x15 images, each of 513x513 pixel size...
Not all the grid slots are actually occupied by an image (that's where you got the red alert to go back and play!), but still amazing...
If you would create a single image it would be 91827x7695 pixel!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well still tiny compared to the biggest picture ever made 192Gigapixels
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Yeah. But you're comparing photographs vs. hand-drawn pictures.
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Yeah i know 
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Well, Kornfeld, back in the day when Bill had taste-buds, he had a mean southern-style (southern USA, that is) recipe for turning a turkey corpse into a banquet for many.
Assuming you start with a frozen turkey:
0. remove the giblets first (look for the bag in the internal cavity), set aside in the refrigerator to defrost. note how you prepare the giblets is not described here; some people discard the giblets, but that's not the southern way: in the south they'd be turned into turkey gravy.
1. thaw turkey if frozen (how long will depend on weight of bird)
2. rinse with wate, flush internal body cavity, etc. pat dry with kitchen towels.
3. prepare about one quart of stuffing mix:
3.a. about three cups of corn-meal
3.b. one cup chopped celery
3.c. one large can water-chestnuts, chopped
3.d. one cup chives chopped
3.d. small amounts of cardamom, cinnamon ... to taste ... one teaspoon ground black pepper, one-half teaspoon salt
3.e. two tablespoons of baking powder
3.f. one-half cup chopped garlic
3.g. one teaspoon soy-sauce
3.h. one teaspoon vinegar
3.i. one tablespoon sesame oil
3.j. two cups of buttermilk
Melt half-stick of butter, add sesame oil, salt, black-pepper, vinegar, soy-sauce, bring to low heat,
Add garlic, chives, celery, stir and simmer for ten minutes
Combine with corn-meal, buttermilk, baking powder, cardamom, cinnamon, water-chestnuts in bowl
Pat dry the turkey internal cavity with kitchen-towels.
Mix, then insert into turkey internal cavity, wire the drumsticks together the usual way to seal in the stuffing.
Wrap the bird in heavy aluminum foil and put in oven pre-heated to 325F. After one hour, open and baste with your basting mixture (your choice, there;, down in the south that mixture might include a mix of honey and Jack Daniels whisky in which cloves have been sauteed, and a heap of melted butter).
Then raise temperature to 350F, and cook for two-to-four hours more (total cooking time will depend on weight of the turkey). Baste a second, or third time, depending on total cooking time.
See table here for cooking time guidelines: [^].
It is best that you check the internal temperature of the stuffing in the body cavity with a cooking thermometer of the probe type to make sure it reached at least 165F ... for food safety reasons.
Also, imho, best to let the cooked turkey sit for half-an-hour before serving.
cheers, Bill
p.s. of course without fresh whole-cranberries mixed with zest of lemon, or lime, or even some mint leaves, that turkey is going to be a bit less magical.
p.s.p.s. cardamom is not found, to my knowledge, in southern American cooking, but it's a personal favorite of mine. and, water-chestnuts are a non-traditional ingredient that would probably make hillbillies go get their shotguns.
p.s.p.s.p.s. northern Thailand is having a turkey drought because imports from the U.S. were halted because of turkey-flu. getting an imported turkey here, right now, would cost over US $12 per kilo at the current "inflated" rate. as for Thai turkeys: well, better just let them alone to pursue their scraggly, bedraggled, scrawny existence.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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At long last, you're finally with the program.
I shall keep my tradition (as of tomorrow, it's a tradition) and make Eggrolls. As a concession to the season, I'll use Tofurkey Sausage as an ingredient.
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Shoot a Russian plane down?
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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I take him aside and gently explain the facts of life.
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http://xkcd.com/1608/[^]
How long did that take him? 
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Nice game
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So, you only think inside the box, huh?
Try looking outside the play area... 
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I already did, still it's a nice game?
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Star Destroyer!
veni bibi saltavi
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Tetris!
Joust!
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i hope he will make this a whale screenshot, it's so big you cant even get to everything.
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