Dec 4th, 2007, 7:41 PM
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Re: Wide characters
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However, there are several disadvantages to this. First, calling ANSI functions on NT family systems incurs a performance hit, as the string parameters have to be translated on the way into and/or out of the call to the Unicode version of the function.
Second, the reason Unicode was invented in the first place was to allow for the expression of a wide spectrum of languages within a single character encoding. Sticking to ANSI will leave you back in the field of code-pages, and a limited set of supported languages. Finally, there are several technologies in Windows, most notably COM, that are Unicode only. If you write ANSI-only programs, you will have a lot of conversions to perform, which also impact on performance.
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http://www.ddj.com/windows/184416713
look for single built ansi |
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