Re: Problem with using char* to return string by reference

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:58:02 +0200
Message-ID:
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"Hendrik Schober" <Spamtrap@gmx.de> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:uI4Z8ETzIHA.3920@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

How do I convert a char* to unicode TCHAR?


  Look at the 'MultiByteToWideChar()' API.


MBTWC is good for converting from char* to wchar_t*... but TCHAR does not
always expand to wchar_t, that's why there are ATL conversion macros (A2T,
etc. in VC6, or more robust CA2T etc. since Visual C++ 7.1 in VS.NET 2003).

I know that you know that :) but I think that it is better making that clear
for the OP.

  I can tell you that there's lots and lots of programs out there
  where the authors just forgot that their language isn't the only
  one in the world. These attempt to install themselves into some
  "C:\Program Files" folder (which doesn't exist on my machine),
  fail to work with what's probably the most common last name
  around here (M?ller) and just crash when supposed to open a file
  I got from a Japanese customer.


Agree! Same problem here in Italy with ? ?, etc.

Giovanni

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