Re: Are _T() and TEXT() macros equivalent?

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:56:08 -0700

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"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9910DC6A64371MihaiN@207.46.248.16...

Your option:
  - The old programs need changes
  - For new ones is easy to use char as Unicode character
  - The result is not standard
  - The result is not cross-platform
Current option:
  - The old programs need changes
  - For new ones is easy to use wchar_t as Unicode character
  - The result is standard
  - The result is cross-platform

All this to avoid macros?

If it's this much trouble to get rid of something as minor as _T() macros,
then I don't even want to talk about bigger innovations. It just shows how
stuck in the mud C++ programmers are. To say that it is FUNDAMENTAL to the
language that sizeof(char) == 1? I mean, really.

Again, existing files would have to be converted, or else code to
read/write them have to specifically use one byte chars.

You cannot convert legacy files. Legacy files don't mean "files I have
saved
a while ago"
It also means any other files out there that are not Unicode UTF-16LE,
what is called import/export. Think HTML, XML, text.

Well yes. If I know a file is not saved in Unicode, of course we need
special routines to read it and convert it, but what has that got to do with
whether a native "char" is 1 byte or 2 bytes? There is a separate thread
going on about how CStdioFile does not really read Unicode-16 files
properly. So we need to write some new code to read Unicode-16 files into
wide strings. Big deal. It's not like we're saying because CStdioFile
doesn't work with Unicode-16 files, that the whole Unicode concept is
faulty.

And strcpy_s is a non-standard, non-portable extension.
It does not change the functionality of strcpy, which is standard.

I had thought strcpy_s was the new standard. If it's not, it's even less of
a draw than before. In my mind, it doesn't hold a candle to strsafe.

-- David

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