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lpcstr

What does LPCWSTR stand for and how should it be handled?

December 26, 2022 by Tarik

LPCWSTR stands for “Long Pointer to Constant Wide String”. The W stands for Wide and means that the string is stored in a 2 byte character vs. the normal char. Common for any C/C++ code that has to deal with non-ASCII only strings.= To get a normal C literal string to assign to a LPCWSTR, … Read more

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