Re: Multibyte problems in MFC Editboxes
I think this is especially true if you are using a bunch of code to convert
between Unicode and MBCS. So, as soon as someone mentions an Asian language
need then I always think switching to Unicode is the only way to go.
Tom
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:a97dh4d0ae3et8d5jbotbvm43bgrc2h5gf@4ax.com...
Strings form such an infinitesimal amount of space in nearly all
applications that the
"string bloat" argument is almost always completely bogus.
joe
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 21:15:11 -0800, "Tom Serface"
<tom.nospam@camaswood.com> wrote:
I've had this same problem in non-Unicode builds. I know a lot of people
think that switching a program to Unicode will cause it to bloat up
because
of string space, but I've never seen this happen and if you are going to
do
languages (especially Asian) you will most certainly want to use Unicode.
I
believe the strings in the resources are always Unicode so maybe that's
why
you are seeing them display OK.
Also, if you are using Unicode already, make sure that you are not doing
any
text conversion like calling CStringA or SetWindowTextA or something else
that might do the conversion back for you without you realizing it.
Tom
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