Wide character string class

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Originally in here.
The basic_string class is parameterized by character type, and by that type''s Character Traits. Most of the time, however, there is no need to use the basic_string template directly. The types string and wstring are typedefs for, respectively, basic_string<char> and basic_string<wchar_t>.

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Original post by Kurioes
[quote]Original post by civguy
[quote]Originally in here.
The basic_string class is parameterized by character type, and by that type''s Character Traits. Most of the time, however, there is no need to use the basic_string template directly. The types string and wstring are typedefs for, respectively, basic_string and basic_string.

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I read that part... and missed it

Thank you.

I would still appreciate hints/pointers on wide string issues however.

Under Windows you can compile for MBCS or for UNICODE, and a macro TCHAR will be defined as char or wchar_t respectively.

I typedef std::basic_string<TCHAR> tstring; (along with a huge pile of other typedefs, #defines, and overloads) to have a consistent (portable) syntax for compile the code with both unicode and a multi-byte strings.

The most annoying part, is the unicode string literals needs to be prefixed by L. So you need a marco to decide if you need the prefix or not, I use SC for lack of a better choice.

tchar str[] = SC("This will work with both MBCS and UNICODE");
tcout << str << endl;
size_t n = tcslen(str); //calls strlen for MBCS, wcslen for UNICODE

It's important to remember that the character size can be either 1 or 2.

[edited by - Magmai Kai Holmlor on May 5, 2003 1:05:14 AM]

Would SC (in the Unicode case) be #defined as
#define SC(x) L##x
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I like this #define and typedef idea.

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Original post by Magmai Kai Holmlor
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The most annoying part, is the unicode string literals needs to be prefixed by L. So you need a marco to decide if you need the prefix or not, I use SC for lack of a better choice.

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Maybe I''m missing something but why not just use the _T or TEXT macros provided in Windows SDK tchar.h header file?

TCHAR* p = TEXT("My text");

Under MBCS it will compile as:

char* p = "My text";

and under UNICODE it will compile as:

wchar_t* p = L"My text";


Hehe.

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Original post by Kurioes
Would SC (in the Unicode case) be #defined as
#define SC(x) L##x
?

I like this #define and typedef idea.

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Just use the ones provided in the tchar.h header.

Use _T or TEXT, they both do the same thing.