>Hi Experts,
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>I have my test machine's Regional Settings set to Chinese (Taiwan) in the Advanced tab, reason being I am doing an app that will accept, store and display Chinese characters.
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>All works well, except my combobox finder class. Its normal behavior traps keys typed in it via the Keypress event, then builds up a filtered SQL query based on whatever the current DisplayValue is.
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>Now, when set to Chinese, if I type say "ABC", it shows as "A B C" - note the tab like spacing in between characters.
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>So, I decided to check out what values are being trapped. It always shows INKEY value of the actual letter typed, plus an additional nKeyCode=41025, nShiftAltCtrl=8!!! So, typing in an A, will yield a nKeyCode=65, nShiftAltCtrl=0, then nKeyCode=41025, nShiftAltCtrl=8!
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>I lookeup the INKEY() values, no such animal with 41025 and 8.
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>How do I go about going around this problem? Help!
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>My combo finder does not search against Chinese character fields, only the English character fields.

A complete SWAG, but sounds maybe like an issue with Double Byte Character Sets (DBCS) or UniCode?

There's a paper on Rick Strahl's site: http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/foxunicode/foxunicode.asp