"Eddie Berman" <eddieberman2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Dpqdnf6JnaK7bGjdRVn-gg@comcast.com...
> I just received a report that the Japanese version of our app crashes with
a
> exception error likely due to our setting the NotifyIcon with a text
string
> greater than the allowable 64 bytes. Since we ensure that any string is
not
> greater than 64 chars (for English), it's likely that the Japanese version
> needs to be no greater than 32 chars.
> Before I go and dig out and set up my Japanese machine to run a test, has
> anyone had any experience with this problem? It would be nice to know that
> everyone but me knows the answer and can confirm my suspicions.
>
> Here's the salient JIT debug output:
> at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.Shell_NotifyIcon(Int32
> message, NOTIFYICONDATA pnid)
> at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.UpdateIcon(Boolean showIconInTray)
> at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.set_Text(String value)
>
> Thanks,
> Ed B.
>
>

> Some questions:
>
> Do you know the exact definition of the exception?
>
> Do you know the kind of platform (Win9x or NT based) ?
>
> Do you know the version of the framework?
>
> As stated, it is hard to know what the actual issue is, and I would not
want
> to assume that the cause is as hypothesized.
>
>
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> Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
> Windows International Division
>
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> "Eddie Berman" <eddieberman2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Dpqdnf6JnaK7bGjdRVn-gg@comcast.com...
> > I just received a report that the Japanese version of our app crashes
with
> a
> > exception error likely due to our setting the NotifyIcon with a text
> string
> > greater than the allowable 64 bytes. Since we ensure that any string is
> not
> > greater than 64 chars (for English), it's likely that the Japanese
version
> > needs to be no greater than 32 chars.
> > Before I go and dig out and set up my Japanese machine to run a test,
has
> > anyone had any experience with this problem? It would be nice to know
that
> > everyone but me knows the answer and can confirm my suspicions.
> >
> > Here's the salient JIT debug output:
> > at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.Shell_NotifyIcon(Int32
> > message, NOTIFYICONDATA pnid)
> > at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.UpdateIcon(Boolean showIconInTray)
> > at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.set_Text(String value)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ed B.
> >
> >
>
>

> The current oddity we're suddenly faced with is about
> Japanese text displaying as boxes on Win2K. I posted a question about that
> defect on this newsgroup this evening. After that's fixed, we may actually

> The framework version is 1.1.4322.
> The Exception text is:
> System.ArgumentException: -",$B!,9[(B,$B%s(B.$B%+(BZs-$B!&!&(BUnicode ,$B%%(B,$B!&(BANSI
> ,$B%N(B.$B%^(BS$B%-(B,$B%J(B,$B%)(B,$B%M(B,$B%%(B,$B%A(B,$B%9(B,$B%9(B,$B!,!"(BO^,$Bo(BW$B@.(B,$B%J(B,$B%)(B,$B%o(B,$B%1(B,$B!&%J(B,$B%*(B,$B%9!#(B
> at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.Shell_NotifyIcon(Int32
> message, NOTIFYICONDATA pnid)
> at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.UpdateIcon(Boolean showIconInTray)
> at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.set_Text(String value)
> ...
>
> The behavior only occurred on Win98 (tested fine on XP and W2K). I reduced
> the max number of chars to 31 when the culture is "ja" and that fixed the
> problem (32 worked as well, but with the release eminent, I'm being
> cautious).

> Since this now works, it's no longer a pressing issue, though I'd love to
> know why it occurred.

> The current oddity we're suddenly faced with is about
> Japanese text displaying as boxes on Win2K. I posted a question about that
> defect on this newsgroup this evening. After that's fixed, we may actually
> release!