Text and Strings in Visual C++ Unicode and MBCS International Enabling Internationalization Strategies Locales and Code Pages Benefits of Character Set Portability Support for Unicode Support for Using wmain Unicode Programming Summary Support for Multibyte Character Sets (MBCSs) MBCS Support in Visual C++ MBCS Programming Tips General MBCS Programming Advice Incrementing and Decrementing Pointers Byte Indices Last Character in a String Character Assignment Character Comparison Buffer Overflow Support for ANSI Generic-Text Mappings in Tchar.h Using TCHAR.H Data Types with _MBCS Code How to: Convert Between Various String Types