Unicode Support in Apps
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| Application | Sub Section | Internal Support | Rendering | Input | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Basic 6.0 | IDE | Yes | No | No | Supports internally as UTF-16 |
| Visual Basic 6.0 | controls | N/A | No | No | |
| Visual Basic.net 2003 | IDE | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Visual basic.net 2003 | Buttons | Yes | Partial | Yes | Change "Flat Style" property from "Standard" to "System" |
| Visual basic.net 2003 | Data Grid | Yes | Partial | Yes | Renders correctly only when the cell has input focus |
| Visual basic .net 2005 | IDE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Recommended |
| Visual Basic.net 2005 | Controls | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Crystal Reports | Yes | No | N/A | ||
| Apache | Yes | N/A | Yes | Set http-request directive to support UTF-8 | |
| MySQL | Yes | N/A | Yes | Have to set character-encoding for Database & Tables as UTF-8 . Collation support after ver 5.0 | |
| MySQL | MySQL GUI Tools | Yes | No | No | |
| SQLite | - | Yes | N/A | N/A | |
| Adobe CS2 & below | All | No | No | No | If you input a Unicode character, the program crashes |
| Adobe CS3 | Yes | No | Yes | All packages behave the same way, even Flash & Dreamweaver | |
| Flash 8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Recommended | |
| Dreamweaver 8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Recommended | |
| Java | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Java | AWT | Yes | |||
| Java | SWNG | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Python | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Python | Tkinter | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Python | wxWidgets | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| VLC | No | N/A | N/A | Filenames not supported. In case of ID3v2 tag in Sinhala, it displays nothing for the relevent field | |
| Windows Media Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| WinAmp 5.35 & Above | Yes | Yes | Yes | Support for ID3 v2 tags | |
| Oracle | Yes | Yes | Yes | Collation is also supported | |
| PHP | Yes | N/A | Yes | Need the extension "mbstring" for text processing support | |
| Mozilla Firefox 2.x | Yes | Partial | Yes | Filters out the ZWJ | |
| Mozilla Firefox 3.x | Yes | Yes | Yes | Even the URL address box supports Sinhala (better than Internet Explorer 5.0) | |
| Gmail | Yes | Partial | Yes | Filters out the ZWJ | |
| CorelDRAW Graphics Suit X3 | CorelDRAW X3 | Yes | No | Yes | you can also see ZWJ in some instances |
| CorelDRAW Graphics Suit X3 | Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 | Yes | No | Yes | you can also see ZWJ in some instances |
| Microsoft Office 2007 | Outlook 2007 | Yes | Partial | Yes | mail headers with UTF-8 characters are only shown as split multi-byte characters (සිංහල යුනිකà·) |
Last Update :17-November- 2007
