Re: _UNICODE

From: Venkatesh Murthy N G (vmurthy@teil.soft.net)
Date: Thu Jan 28 1999 - 10:29:18 EST


Hi John,

> You don't need to use either to get Japanese support. However, you may want
> to use the _MBCS manifest instead. This will cause your compile and links
> to use "multi-byte enabled" libraries for so-called ANSI applications.
>
   
Do You have any sample code. We are not getting any SDK/DDK help on
Muti-byte character sets ? If so please mail us.

If I use UNICODE (our os is only windows-NT) only will I be able to
support Japanese vesion of software ?

(We have already finished coding..)

regards

N G Venkatesha Murthy

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, John O'Conner wrote:

>
>
> _UNICODE affects the C runtime libraries that get compiled and linked in.
> UNICODE affects the Win32 API calls in your code. During compile time,
> these manifests cause the wide character (Unicode) versions of the APIs to
> be used.
>
> You don't need to use either to get Japanese support. However, you may want
> to use the _MBCS manifest instead. This will cause your compile and links
> to use "multi-byte enabled" libraries for so-called ANSI applications.
>
> If you use UNICODE in your application, you have made the choice to not run
> on Windows 95/98 since those platforms do not support most of the Unicode
> versions of the Win32 API.
>
> Regards,
> John O'Conner
>
>
>
>
>
> Venkatesh Murthy N G <vmurthy@teil.soft.net> on 01/26/99 10:54:56 PM
>
> To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
> cc: (bcc: John O'Conner/QAD1)
> Subject: _UNICODE
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>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> what is the difference between #define UNICODE and #define _UNICODE.
>
> To support application to be run with Japanese language support do we
> need to include both ?
>
> I need reply soon because some of the API's are giving error if I include
> this line i.e. #define UNICODE
>
> venky
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