Frederick, i did NOT abandon that post, i tried all you guys told me but to no avail, and since nobody had replied to that post again i decided to bring it up again. I tried EVERYTHING you guys told me to dobut it was still giving me chinese. The code in the tutorial compiled to give English output, so thatwas why i posted this post.
Not so Tkud. Here is the link to your previous post....
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread245406.html
If you check that out you'll see an entire program I wrote for you to compile and run which implemented Clinton Portis's suggestion to you to extract the character set equate out of the TEXTMETRIC struct so we could use that as a starting point to see why you were getting the strange results you are reporting. It took about an hour of my time to prepare that program for you to run, and I did it partially as a learning experience for you because if you are attempting to learn Sdk style C or C++ programming you need early on to understand Window Device Contexts and the TEXTMETRIC struct.
Since you appear to be someone who just abandons posts where people expend considerable effort to help you, and start new ones asking the same questions, I'm not inclined to help any further. In any case, I do wish you a Merry Christmas!