Thread: unicode text macros

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    Question unicode text macros

    hello

    c++ stanard says first underscore not allowed but windows have _T macro for making unicode words like. Why windows pee on standar? Or is macros okay?

    here is it, I think 17.4.3.1.2
    each name that begins with an underscore is reserved to the implementation
    Thanks. sorry my english not to good.

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    The implementation is the given compiler and/or library. In this case, only the compiler itself and or the std lib is allowed to have underscores at the beginning of a macro name.

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    And _T is not part of Windows. TEXT() is. _T is part of tchar.h, which is a compiler-specific extension.
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