about char type

i want to code with unicode , but im not sure that WCHAR and wchar_t which one is better

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Originally Posted by WinNT.h

typedef wchar_t WCHAR;

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Effectively, they are the same thing. One just tends to be used when specifically programming windows applications.

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Originally Posted by ampc

i want to code with unicode , but im not sure that WCHAR and wchar_t which one is better

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In Windows your best bet is to use #define UNICODE at the top of your source files then use the TCHAR and PTCHAR types for strings.

There are also a number of string and path functions defined that are "unicode smart"... lstrcpy() lstrcat() etc. and Path____() all work with unicode, using THCARs, as do most windows function calls.

A TCHAR is defined as...

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#ifdef UNICODE
 typedef wchar_t TCHAR
 typedef wchar_t* PTCHAR
#else
 typedef char TCHAR
 typedef char* PTCHAR
#endif

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I don't recommend using TCHAR's. It's added level of abstraction and effort that is no longer needed in new development for Windows.

gg