Unicode strings in my C# App are shown with question marks
- by mrbamboo
Hi,
I have a header file in C++/CLR project, which contains some strings in different languages.
arabic, english, german, chinese, french, japanese etc...
I have a second project written in C#.
Here I access the strings stored in the header file of the C++/CLR project.
The encoding of the header file is Unicode - Codepage 1200 or UTF-8.
the visual studio editor is able to display the strings correctly.
At runtime I access these strings and assign them into a local String variable.
Here I recognized that many strings are not shown correctly. Doesn't matter if I assign them or not. Accessing the original place (while debugging) shows me all the foreign strings with question marks. Especially chinese, just question marks.
Example : "So?e St?ange ?ext in Ch?n?se"
(This is not the best example, I know)
What is the problem?
I read that C# is by default UTF-16,
My header file containing the strings is UTF-16 or UTF-8.
I must be able to handle strings in different languages. What am I doing wrong?
