Will unicode be supported by LabVIEW?

[RavensFan]

Who is your question to when you reply to a 5 year old thread?

[Tiger81]

Thanks for pointing out how old the thread is, so NI hasn't figured out how to support Unicode in their single most popular product yet in 5 years? Interesting that half the charactors used in engineering applications are Greek.

Best Regards,

[RavensFan]

No.

You may want to go and Kudo this idea on the Ideas exchange.  Support Unicode.

[rolfk]

One complication with Unicode support in LabVIEW is that Unicode is not always Unicode. Windows uses a somewhat different Unicode than other platforms. For one Windows uses UTF16 while all the other platforms use UTF32. And Microsoft being Microsoft, they could not resist to "improve" the standard in some areas.

So while LabVIEW could support Unicode, and even does have experimental Unicode support that is by default disabled, there would be various potential problems when one would take a Unicode enabled VI from Windows and open it on one of the other platform versions or vice versa. To overcome these difficulties, while they are mostly not exactly a complete showstopper, would be a truely immense work and the powers to be seem to have decided that releasing Unicode with this deficiencies is not an option, and allocating resources to resolve them has not the necessary priority in comparison to other things that need to be done.

[தமிழ்நேரம்]

Hi All,

              Please find the set of VIs that do the Unicode encodings and decodings in the following thread.

"http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-10153"

Enable the Unicode display in LabVIEW as mentioned in the thead and See the example VIs.

Read Write ASCII-Unicode Text File.vi Makes Use of these encoding and decoding VIs.  This VI works similar to the Notepad Application (select Encoding as UTF16LE) to read and display the contents of the file in String Indicator.

Regards

Anish T.