Unicode string literals in VBA
Faking the Const by creating Private Property Get returning the string, because the string will be recreated every time I access the property (plus, is confusing and ugly... but, okay, the last two things are rather a matter of taste).
You need not recreate the string each time you access the property.
While this is still ugly as a matter of taste, make a read-only property (essentially Const
, since it doesn't have a Property Let
procedure), and construct the string in the Class_Initialize
event:
'## CLASS MODULE
Private pUnicodeString As String
Sub Class_Initialize()
pUnicodeString = ChrW(22793) & ChrW(25968)
End Sub
Property Get UnicodeString() As String
UnicodeString = pUnicodeString
End Property
And then invoke it like:
'## STANDARD MODULE
Sub Test()
Dim c As myClass
Set c = New myClass
[A1].Value = c.UnicodeString
End Sub
The encoding of VBA source file is Windows-1252, which does not support Japanese.
You cannot change the encoding of the source file, so you have to write its binary equivalent and then convert it before using it
Const str = vbTab & "Ype" ' I use vbTab because the VBA editor replaces tabulation with spaces
'...
ustr = StrConv(str, vbFromUnicode)
'ustr value is now "変数"
Use notepad to convert the string: copy-paste the unicode string, save the file as unicode (not utf-8) and open it as ANSI, then copy-paste it into the VBA editor without the first two characters (ÿþ), which is the BOM marker
Explanation
変数 is U+5909 U+6570
in unicode which is 0x09 0x59 0x70 0x65
in UTF-16LE (Windows unicode encoding), and this sequence corresponds to <tab>Ype
in Windows-1252