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MBCS is an abbreviation for "Multi-Byte Character Set" i.e. the representation of text using more than one byte per character.

Convert first letter in string to uppercase

I have a string: "apple". How can I convert only the first character to uppercase and get a new string …

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MBCS Error building MFC C++ project with Visual Studio

I opened my existing MFC project using Visual Studio and when I build I get the following error message: Error 1 …

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Difference between MBCS and UTF-8 on Windows

I am reading about the charater set and encodings on Windows. I noticed that there are two compiler flags in …

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Reading and Writing registry keys. C++ MFC MBCS.

I would like to detect, and if possible read to a CString, a registry key starting with "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\…

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MFC Multibyte Add-on for Visual Studio 2015 Express for Desktop

I'm using VS 2015 Express for Desktop which doesn't have MFC Multibyte support by default. Not long ago there was a …

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How to know the preferred display width (in columns) of Unicode characters?

In different encodings of Unicode, for example UTF-16le or UTF-8, a character may occupy 2 or 3 bytes. Many Unicode applications …

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Unable to convert the CStringW to CStringA

I am working on one project where I have stucked on one problem of converting CStringW to CStringA for multibyte …

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