Re: Are _T() and TEXT() macros equivalent?

To say that it is FUNDAMENTAL to the
language that sizeof(char) == 1?

When something is part of the standard, is used (as an implicit assumption)
by every single application developed in that language for the last 30 years,
and every single such application will break if this changes, then yes,
it is fundamental.



Well yes. If I know a file is not saved in Unicode, of course we need
special routines to read it and convert it, but what has that got to do
with whether a native "char" is 1 byte or 2 bytes?

It has. You will need another data type for "characters that are not Unicode"
to read such a file.


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