Re: Converting MBCS project to UNICODE compliant.. Pros and Cons

From:

Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:04:52 +0100

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<ludl56-0hb.ln1@satorlaser.homedns.org>

sachin wrote:

i want to convert my project which is compiled using Multi Byte character
set to UNICODE character set .

what is the best way of doing it?

The best way is to not do it, because then you're automatically done.
Seriously, without defining "best", this is impossible to answer.

i mean should i use use TCHAR compatible functions or WCHAR ?

If you want to optionally compile MBCS, using TCHAR would be useful.
Otherwise, you can as well directly switch to WCHAR.

apart from converting these basic functions and variables do i have to
take any other precaution ?

You can use a very simple way for the first conversion, and that is to make
your code independent of the _UNICODE macro. It means that you will not use
_T() and that you use CreateFileA() directly instead of the CreateFile
macro. Then, in a second step, you can switch those parts where you
actually want to use a WCHAR interface.

Also does it have any impact on Performance of program ?

Since modern MS Windows variants are WCHAR-based, you will save one
conversion every time you don't use a CHAR interface. Plus, you will save a
conversion that can fail.

Uli

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