Re: TCHAR * to WCHAR*


"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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fn_name ((std::wstring("Error: ") + T2W(err.ErrorMessage()).c_str ());

missing L -- should be std::wstring(L"Error: ")

So ATL/MFC CString (or CStringW) seems smarter than std::wstring, because
CString has a constructor which takes a narrow character string and
converts to CString's type, without using the L or _T() decorator.

Why would you want a runtime conversion for a string literal? That's asking
for trouble, because it's likely to be user-preference dependent, in which
case, why use Unicode at all?


Giovanni




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