Re: LPCSTR from String

From: Jochen Kalmbach (nospam-Jochen.Kalmbach_at_holzma.de)
Date: 02/15/05

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:25:16 -0800

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Qmlqb3k=?=,

> I don't know much about LPCSTR, but belive this can hold pointer
> to both ANSI and UNICODE string.

No, LPCSTR only handles ANSI (or MBCS) strings (char*)

To support bith you should use LPCTSTR.

> Up from NT5 windows uses unicode, can some
> one explane on these context
???

Starting with NT (3.01) it uses unicode as fundamental string encoding!

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