how to separate UNICODE data from ANSI

Please explain what you mean by "MIXTURE".  Perhaps an example of what you mean.

mixture mean, some characters are ANSi then some UNICODE then may be one ANSI then UNICODE, then ANSI then UNICODE
like this
      ax?sdf///????asdf//asdf??F?FD???DSF?DF??F?????DF?DSF?
conside ???? as unicode and others as ANSI.
this is the situation.
kindly help me , it is very urgent.

In a single buffer?  

I don't see any way to do this since there is no way to distinguish any two ANSI characters from any one UNICODE character.  

In other words, the set of and two ANSI characters taken together has a UNION with the set of UNICODE characters.

What about 'IsTextUnicode()'?

i think you do't understand the question.
i got some characters in a buffer.
in that buffer there are unicode characters as well as ansi
now i want to get all ansi characters in one buffer and alll unicode characters in another buffer to display them properly.
those are not inter mixed with each other. either u are thinking that two ansi characters are mixed up to form a unicode character.
this is not the case.

BTW, what I'm saying is that the 2 BYTE sequence:

0x55 0x56

Could be either ANSI sequence "UV" or the UNICODE character 0x5556.

jkr,

The IsTextUnicode() can be easily fooled and the above scenario is one that is very likely to confuse it.

yes that is the actuall problem
thats why i am confusing , how to separte both.

How are these characters getting into this mess?  Sometimes the best approach is to keep a mess from happening in the first place.

I think there is no solution to this problem as you have framed it.  There is no reliable way to separate ANSI and UNICODE text which have been intermixed in such a way as this.

can you atleast tell me, if there is a space between two unicode words, is that space will be an ANSI character or UNICODE character.

In a UNICODE string, ALL the characters will be UNICODE.  In your example, who knows??

Again, how are you getting into this mess?  Perhaps there is a better way...

it must be an ANSI character.
then when we will convert the data, conversion will spoil all the formating as there is an ANSI character between two unicode words.
then when i will display it will display something like it |||||||||||||||||||||||||
now what to do with this situation.

No, you are incorrect.  A UNICODE string is all UNICODE.  Consider the following:

The C++ source statement:

WCHAR *wszTest = L"This is a UNICODE test";

Causes the following pattern to be generated as a constant UNICODE:

DB 'T'
DB     00H, 'h', 00H, 'i', 00H, 's', 00H, ' ', 00H, 'i', 00H, 's', 00H
DB     ' ', 00H, 'a', 00H, ' ', 00H, 'U', 00H, 'N', 00H, 'I', 00H, 'C'
DB     00H, 'O', 00H, 'D', 00H, 'E', 00H, ' ', 00H, 't', 00H, 'e', 00H
DB     's', 00H, 't', 00H, 00H, 00H               ;
CONST     ENDS

So you get:

Note that ALL the characters are UNICODE characters and that the string is terminated with a UNICODE NULL or "0x0000".

You can read sth bout Unicode here:
http://www.unicode.org/

You may try to see if particular character (char) is real ascii displayable character, if not - that can be Unicode. If this can be Unicode, than next character will be a Unicode too (in fact one Unicode character has two bytes. This method _MAY_ sometimes work.

BTW: see MBCS too: as (from msdn)"Languages that use MBCS, such as Japanese, are also unique. Since a character may consist of _one_ or _two_ bytes, you should always manipulate both bytes at the same time"

As jhance wrote, try to solve problem by removing its source, for instance: create only Unicode string instead of mixing two character encoding modes.
According to Msdn: "Take care if you mix ANSI (8-bit) and Unicode (16-bit) characters in your application. It’s possible to use ANSI characters in some parts of your program and Unicode characters in others, but you cannot mix them in the same string."

Mukki

Sounds like a UTF-8 string, which uses the least number of bytes to represent a character.  In which case you chouse use MultiByteTo* functions.

Or maybe I am completely wrong.

Lockias

thanks to all.
i have converted all the data reading byte by byte.
separating unicode from ansi.
thanks again for alll to take so much concern in my matter.
ult

For future reference, can you please tell us:

How were you able to determine whether two consecutive bytes were a single UNICODE character or two ANSI characters?  

Inquiring minds wan to know.

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Who knows?  This user is so confused, I'm not sure he knows what he was asking.....

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