ANSI To Unicode

[Lamblion]

I have a multi-byte project, and I'm not going to change it. However, there are times when I want to make a certain snippet Unicode, such as the SysLink example discussed here, which I have made to work in Unicode numerous times, but of course it ONLY works in Unicode.

Is there a way to define or make just a certain section of my project Unicode so that I can employ as Unicode call, such as the SysLink, for example?

Do I just #define Unicode for that section, or what? Please show me if there is a way. That is, don't explain it, just show me, pleaes.

[Computergeek01]

Are you already using the TEXT() Macro? Because that's the straightest way I know of doing this.

[Lamblion]

No, my project is multi-byte so the TEXT() macro doesn't apply. I need to switch ONLY this particular function/section to Unicode so that I CAN use the _T("such and such") macro.

[Disch]

Yes. It's easy. Just use the Unicode version of the Win Functions when you want them (the 'W' versions... MessageBoxW, etc) and pass them wide strings.

Whether or not UNICODE is #defined only makes a difference when <Windows.h> is included. #defining it after that is useless.

[Lamblion]

Yes, that's basically what they told me on the C++ MS forum. What's the difference between wchar_t and tchar? or is there any?

[modoran]

TCHAR is wchar_t if your project uses unicode configuration or plain char otherwise.
wchar_t is different type than char, has 2 bytes on windows platform and holds UTF-16 encoded text.

There is MultiByteToWideChar() API if you want to convert from ansi to unicode.

[Lamblion]

Thanks, you've all not only answered my question, but it's much simpler than I thought it would be thanks.