Notes on SP Unicode support under Windows NT

When compiled with the appropriate preprocessor definition (UNICODE), SP now uses Unicode interfaces to NT. This means that the SP_BCTF environment variable applies only to file input and output, and so unicode is allowed as the value of SP_BCTF.

In order for non-ASCII characters to be correctly displayed on your console you must select a TrueType font, such as Lucida Console, as your console font.

If you define your own public character sets, you should use Unicode (or a superset of Unicode) as your universal character set.

The following additional BCTFs are supported:

windows

Specify this BCTF when a storage object is encoded using your system's default Windows character set, and your document character set is declared as Unicode. This uses the so-called ANSI code page.

wunicode

This uses the unicode BCTF if the storage object starts with a byte order mark and otherwise the windows BCTF. If you are working with Unicode, this is probably the best value for SP_BCTF.

ms-dos

Specify this BCTF when a storage object (file) uses the OEM code page, and your document character set is declared as Unicode. The OEM code-page for a particular machine is the code-page used by FAT file-systems on that machine and is the default code-page for MS-DOS consoles.