Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!aic From: aic@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (George A. Basar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Request for help w/porting strings (8bit) to (16bit) strings... Message-ID: <4190@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 24 Sep 89 17:39:43 GMT References: <251AB160.3031@drivax.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: Purdue University Lines: 19 In article <251AB160.3031@drivax.UUCP>, frotz@drivax.UUCP (Frotz) writes: > > All of the manuals that I have for this are very clear on the > function of these calls. However, it does not give me any clue as to > WHY I should use them... Any help would be greatly appreciated. > The 'why' use of these routines is to ensure compatability on machines running DBCS(double byte character set) display devices. This makes your application (relatively) easily portable to DBCS machines. The 'where' use of these routines, is on any data that may be displayed by your application. This includes strings, but is not limited to them. For national language compatability you should also consider date and monetary formats. * George A. Basar (317)742-8799 (home) * aic@mentor.cc.purdue.edu basar@PURCCVM.BITNET | General Consultant (317)494-1787 (work) | Purdue University Computing Center