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Started by jagguy July 08, 2006 12:50 AM

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jagguy

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July 08, 2006 12:50 AM

I have a prog in multibyte and want to convert to unicode so i can use some dxut api's. what is imvolved and it is hard to do.

smart_idiot

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July 08, 2006 02:23 AM

What do you mean? Multibyte as in 16 bit characters? What do you mean by Unicode? Unicode doesn't care about how the characters are stored, and there are lots of different encodings for it.

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jagguy

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July 08, 2006 04:09 AM

Quote:Original post by smart_idiot
What do you mean? Multibyte as in 16 bit characters? What do you mean by Unicode? Unicode doesn't care about how the characters are stored, and there are lots of different encodings for it.

well the character set in the proeprty pages has multibyte and if you set to unicode then I get an error. To get a program to compile with unicode what do i do as I can't see any strings I have defined.

If I create a solution and create a basic win32 program then it won't compile in unicode.

Quite a simple/basic question to be frank.

Zee Man

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July 10, 2006 12:30 AM

for string literals, put a capitol L in front of them. L"unicode string"

if you want to convert existing strings to unicode, try MultiByteToWideChar

jagguy

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July 10, 2006 02:35 AM

if you take out all the string literals L"__" to just "__" then that is good enough in ansi, I take it.

Spoonbender

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July 10, 2006 07:23 AM

You could try listing your compile errors. Might make it a bit easier to help. [wink]

LessBread

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July 10, 2006 11:30 AM

These might help. YMMV

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------////BOOL WINAPI UnicodeToAnsi(    LPWSTR pszwUniString,    LPSTR  pszAnsiBuff,    DWORD  dwAnsiBuffSize    ){    int iRet = 0;    iRet = WideCharToMultiByte(        CP_ACP,        0,        pszwUniString,        -1,        pszAnsiBuff,        dwAnsiBuffSize,        NULL,        NULL        );    return ( 0 != iRet );}// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------////BOOL WINAPI AnsiToUnicode(    LPSTR  pszAnsiString,    LPWSTR pszwUniBuff,    DWORD dwUniBuffSize    ){    int iRet = 0;    iRet = MultiByteToWideChar(        CP_ACP,        0,        pszAnsiString,        -1,        pszwUniBuff,        dwUniBuffSize        );    return ( 0 != iRet );}

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