Re: Project chenged from MBCS to Unicode gives Linker error

From:
David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:44:25 -0400
Message-ID:
<OAnnSSNEIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Norbert Unterberg wrote:

Giovanni Dicanio schrieb:

"Matrixinline" <anup.kataria@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1192623805.668023.221200@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com...

I have a Solution which contents 3 projects & given below are the
names & their character set encoding type

1. Utility - > MBCS
2. Calculations -> MBCS
3. User Interface -> Unicode ( Earlier It used to be MBCS)

& now project gets compiled but it gives me Linker errors 1500 I am
loosing it..:))))

Can you please let me know Do I need to convert all the Projects to
use Unicode character set ?


You can mix Unicode and MBCS modules, if you keep the interface
between them *clear*.

[...]

So, on the interface, you must explicit qualify the string type, e.g.
using CStringA or CStringW, or wchar_t, or char, etc. ...


Converting the interface is usually a much bigger job than converting
the complete project to UNICODE. You should have a very very good reason
to mix MBCS and UNICODE in the same project. I can not think of one.


Norbert:

I agree. But mixing UTF-8 and UTF-16 can be a valid strategy, and
involves much the same issues.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

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