about MBCS and unicode in Visual C++ 2005
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Dear all I have a project which can be both compiled with VC6 and VC 2005 When I compile it by VC6, the content of LPCSTR is one byte per character but when I compile the project under VC2005 , I find that each character of LPCSTR is consist of 2 bytes which first byte contains the character data and second byte contains a "0" in it. thus I cant show the data properly as I want what happened under VC2005 could you please help me how I can overcome this problem. Is is about unicode and MCBS How can I disable it under VC2005 Could you please send me an article for this problem. I want to become more familiar with UNICODE thanks in advance Mahdi
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Dear all I have a project which can be both compiled with VC6 and VC 2005 When I compile it by VC6, the content of LPCSTR is one byte per character but when I compile the project under VC2005 , I find that each character of LPCSTR is consist of 2 bytes which first byte contains the character data and second byte contains a "0" in it. thus I cant show the data properly as I want what happened under VC2005 could you please help me how I can overcome this problem. Is is about unicode and MCBS How can I disable it under VC2005 Could you please send me an article for this problem. I want to become more familiar with UNICODE thanks in advance Mahdi
I never used 2005, but in 2003 you can right-click your project in solution explorer, select Properties, under General you can set the the character set between unicode, MBCS and unset which basicly means simple, everyday, 1 byte per char strings.
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modified on Saturday, March 7, 2009 4:21 PM
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Dear all I have a project which can be both compiled with VC6 and VC 2005 When I compile it by VC6, the content of LPCSTR is one byte per character but when I compile the project under VC2005 , I find that each character of LPCSTR is consist of 2 bytes which first byte contains the character data and second byte contains a "0" in it. thus I cant show the data properly as I want what happened under VC2005 could you please help me how I can overcome this problem. Is is about unicode and MCBS How can I disable it under VC2005 Could you please send me an article for this problem. I want to become more familiar with UNICODE thanks in advance Mahdi
Yes, it is about
UNICODEandMBCSas you correctly suspected. VC6 by default does not useUNICODE, but VC 2005 usedUNICODEas the default. You can disable this throughProject -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> General -> Character Set. Here you can choose betweenUNICODEandMBCS. On the other side, you can show the data or do any manipulation onUNICODEcharacters. You just need to use the wide version of the functions or the _t macros.«_Superman_» I love work. It gives me something to do between weekends.