E.6. Using Unicode

Visual Studio uses Unicode UTF-16 encoding to represent all characters. Figure E.3 uses Visual Basic to display the text "Welcome to Unicode!" in eight different languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.

Figure E.3. Windows application demonstrating Unicode encoding.
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					' Fig. F.3: Unicode.vb
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					' Using Unicode encoding.
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					Public Class FrmUnicodeDemo
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					Private Sub FrmUnicodeDemo_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
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					ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
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					'English
					7        lblEnglish.Text = ChrW(&H57) & ChrW(&H65) & ChrW(&H6C) & _
 8           ChrW(&H63) & ChrW(&H6F) & ChrW(&H6D) & ChrW(&H65) & _
 9           ChrW(&H20) & ChrW(&H74) & ChrW(&H6F) & ChrW(&H20) & _
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					"Unicode" & ChrW( ...

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