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C++ project type: unicode vs multi-byte; pros and cons

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Two issues I’d comment on. First, you don’t mention what platform you’re targeting. Although recent Windows versions (Win2000, WinXP, Vista and Win7) support both Multibyte and Unicode versions of system calls using strings, the Unicode versions are faster (the multibyte versions are wrappers that convert to Unicode, call the Unicode version, then convert any returned … Read more

Difference between MBCS and UTF-8 on Windows

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I noticed that there are two compiler flags in Visual Studio compiler (for C++) called MBCS and UNICODE. What is the difference between them ? Many functions in the Windows API come in two versions: One that takes char parameters (in a locale-specific code page) and one that takes wchar_t parameters (in UTF-16). int MessageBoxA(HWND … Read more

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