How to support internationalization

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To support internationalization, we must change our character set to either MBCS or Unicode. Upon first impression, Unicode seems the simplest to implement, but is apparently not supported on Windows 95/98. SBCS - What every programmer is taught to use. - One byte per character. Direct correlation between data length and number of characters. - Does not support international characters. MBCS - Apparently compatible with SBCS. - Some characters are single byte, some are double byte. Hence no direct correlation between data length and number of characters. Unicode - Not compatible with SBCS or MBCS. - Two bytes per character. Direct correlation between data length and number of characters. - Apparently not supported on Windows 95/98. Has anyone here done internationalization on an application before? What were your experiences? Any pitfalls or gotchas that you came across? Steve ''Sly'' Williams  Code Monkey  Krome Studios
Steve 'Sly' Williams  Monkey Wrangler  Krome Studios
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