LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Unicode: Codes
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The truth is that many developers are put off by Unicode because most of the time it is possible to muddle through rather than take the time to learn the basics. To make the problem worse if you have a system that manages to fudge the issues and just about work and then start trying to do things properly with Unicode it often highlights problems in other parts of your code.
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An application can use the MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte functions to convert between strings based on code pages and Unicode strings. Although their names refer to "MultiByte", these functions work equally well with single-byte character set (SBCS), double-byte character set (DBCS), and multibyte character set (MBCS) code pages.
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