Question on unicode and MBCS

[Bit Byte]

I am working on a large project and have several modules written
compiled using MBCS. I am considering purchasing a third party library
which I understand, is compiled to support unicode strings.

Is there anyway I can work with both unicode and multi-byte C strings
(MBCS) in the same project ?

[John Harrison]

Bit Byte wrote:

I am working on a large project and have several modules written
compiled using MBCS. I am considering purchasing a third party library
which I understand, is compiled to support unicode strings.

Is there anyway I can work with both unicode and multi-byte C strings
(MBCS) in the same project ?

Yes you can. What is it that you think will stop you?

john

[Bit Byte]

John Harrison wrote:

Bit Byte wrote:

>I am working on a large project and have several modules written
compiled using MBCS. I am considering purchasing a third party library
which I understand, is compiled to support unicode strings.

Is there anyway I can work with both unicode and multi-byte C strings
(MBCS) in the same project ?

Yes you can. What is it that you think will stop you?

john

Just wasn't sure - since the two string types are not interchangeable
(i.e. without using some kind of conversion function from/to Unicode).

I was considering convert strings into the correct (i.e. expected)
format, before passing it to a method - but I just wanted to make sure
that I was not overlooking anything - or that there were no "gotchas I
was unaware of

[John Harrison]

Bit Byte wrote:

>

John Harrison wrote:

>Bit Byte wrote:

>>I am working on a large project and have several modules written
compiled using MBCS. I am considering purchasing a third party
library which I understand, is compiled to support unicode strings.

Is there anyway I can work with both unicode and multi-byte C strings
(MBCS) in the same project ?

Yes you can. What is it that you think will stop you?

john

Just wasn't sure - since the two string types are not interchangeable
(i.e. without using some kind of conversion function from/to Unicode).

I was considering convert strings into the correct (i.e. expected)
format, before passing it to a method - but I just wanted to make sure
that I was not overlooking anything - or that there were no "gotchas I
was unaware of

Yes you'd have to do the conversion yourself. Since you're programming
in Windows (I think) it has a couple of built in functions to do those
conversions.

However you should ask about them on a Windows programming group, since
we only deal with C++ language issues here.

john

[Old Wolf]

On Mar 5, 7:57 am, Bit Byte <[e-mail]:

I am working on a large project and have several modules written
compiled using MBCS. I am considering purchasing a third party
library which I understand, is compiled to support unicode strings.

Is there anyway I can work with both unicode and multi-byte C
strings (MBCS) in the same project ?

MBCS stands for multi-byte character set. In fact this is a poor
name, as it really means multi-byte encoding. The Unicode character
set can be encoded in a "MBCS" format , the most common such way is
known as UTF-8. There are other ways to encode Unicode characters,
such as UTF-16, UCS-2, etc.

If your application already supports UTF-8 then you should not have
any trouble. You should find out exactly which encoding formats this
third-party library supports. If it supports UTF-16 and not UTF-8,
for example, you may need to add a conversion function into your
application.