Re: TCHAR string?

Daniel,

>> The term ASCII was used loosely in my post, but I should've said ANSI.
>
> You wrote:
> | 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.
>
> ANSI is just as wrong as ASCII in that context.

Then what does the "A" stands for at the end of Windows API functions that
accept non-Unicode strings?

> The important thing to grasp is that both MBCS and Unicode builds suffer
> from the fact that a single character may need to be encoded into more
> than one TCHAR (depending on the character set being used), but in MBCS
> a TCHAR is 8 bits while in Unicode it is 16 bits.

I thought the whole point of Unicode was that only one TCHAR was required
for each character?

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


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