Article - CS283050

Creo Parametric sample TOOLKIT / OTK Visual Studio projects has "Character Set" property set to "Use Unicode Character Set" , is this intentional?

Modified: 06-Jan-2025   


Applies To

  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0

Description

  • Is it necessary to set Character Set Visual Studio project property to "Use Unicode Character Set" for TOOLKIT / OTK applications?
  • Sample projects which comes with Creo TOOLKIT / OTK installation (such as otk_install) has "Use Unicode Character Set" option set, is this intentional?
    • Though sample projects have been configured with new non-unicode libraries such protoolkit_NU.lib
  • String Parameter value that contains accented characters like é does appear in the user interface with unexpected characters
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