Re: TCHAR string?

Norman,

> Multibyte means that each character contains one or more bytes. Most
> characters are two bytes long but a few are one byte long. Different
> countries or regions developed different encoding standards before Unicode
> ever existed. ASCII means one particular country's national standard, and
> that particular country's standard only uses single-byte characters. In
> most countries there are still tons of databases, programs, and other
> files conforming to long-standing standards, you have to check which code
> page is in use, and character-by-character you have to check whether it's
> a single-byte character or double-byte character.

Well, I had stated that Multibyte can consist of one or more bytes, but I'd
have to disagree that most characters are two bytes. Most have one.

The term ASCII was used loosely in my post, but I should've said ANSI.

--
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits
http://www.softcircuits.com

> "Jonathan Wood" <jwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OA14vdjEGHA.2544@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Multibyte means ASCII characters, or single-byte characters. I know the
>> name is very misleading. There are situations where some characters can
>> take more than one byte and that is why it has that name.
>>
>> Basically, multibyte means one byte per character and Unicode means two
>> bytes per character. Note that Unicode builds work best on Windows NT and
>> later but may not run on Win95/95/ME.
>>
>> When you use TCHAR, LPCTSTR, etc. and define your string constants using
>> _T("Here's a string"), your strings will be ASCII when you do a multibyte
>> build, and they'll be Unicode when you do a Unicode build. This is
>> convenient because, otherwise, you'd need to modify all your string and
>> string pointers when switching between the two builds.
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Wood
>> SoftCircuits
>> http://www.softcircuits.com
>> Available for consulting: http://www.softcircuits.com/jwood/resume.htm
>>
>> "kathy" <yqin_99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1136491523.052753.253490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> In Visio studio -> project property, I can select Set Multibyte
>>> character set, Set UNICODE character set or Not SET. What Multibyte
>>> character set means here?
>>>
>>
>>
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