Re: unicode apps?

From:

"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:56:33 -0700

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I think MSFT is pushing heavily for people to use Unicode. The new compiler
2005 converts your project files to use Unicode even if it didn't previously
which has confused a lot of people. Another point of confusion is that
CString will accept either type of string. I tend to use Unicode, but save
my strings (files) as UTF-8 to preserve space so it's tricky sometimes. I
don't see anything wrong with MBCS if you are planning on using Western
based languages only. As soon as you pass over into any Asian languages you
have to mess with code pages and that is really a mess. Unicode makes it a
lot easier. The downside is that the string sizes are twice what they were
before (at least). My "belief" is to use what is best for the application,
but always use the TCHAR and _T macros just in case your beliefs change.

Tom

"Marcus" <mcdesigns@walla.com> wrote in message
news:1154626954.734912.123020@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

hi all, was having a problem with cstring in vs2005 (just migrated),
and found this thread discussing the cstring and unicode apps in 2005:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vc.mfc/browse_thread/thread/b562f95ae6e5a099

about three replies in mihai n. (sp)... warned against changing the
project settings to non-unicode. he didn't explain why, so I was
wondering if anyone knew why that might be? is this a universally
agreed upon belief?

thanks
marcus