CodeGuru: The Basics of UTF-8. Short History Probably the best-known character set is the 7-bit char set known as ASCII.
It stands for American Standards Committee for Information Interchange and was designed for communication in US English. ICU Home Page %u200E(International Components for Unicode)%u200E. UTF8-CPP: UTF-8 with C in a Portable Way. CodeProject: The Complete Guide to C Strings, Part I - Win32 C. Introduction You've undoubtedly seen all these various string types like TCHAR, std::string, BSTR, and so on.
And then there are those wacky macros starting with _tcs. And you're staring at the screen thinking "wha? " Well stare no more, this guide will outline the purpose of each string type, show some simple usages, and describe how to convert to other string types when necessary.