How to set the program to multi byte character set using vs 2015

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Please help me how to set my program to multi byte character set using VS 2015..
I'm using C#.

What I have tried:

I can't find the Configuration Properties > Character Set in this Link..

https://studiofreya.com/2014/11/25/character-set-encoding-in-visual-studio-2013/

Posted 28-Feb-16 19:14pm

berrymaria

Updated 28-Feb-16 22:50pm

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Richard MacCutchan 29-Feb-16 4:08am

That link only works for C/C++ projects. What exactly are you trying to do?

berrymaria 29-Feb-16 19:40pm

We have an old code and it has a katakana dot, when compiled to Visual Studio 2015, it has an error. Please what to do?

Richard MacCutchan 1-Mar-16 3:29am

Sorry, but that does not tell us anything. You need to show the code and the error for anyone to be able to help you. Please edit your question and add full details of your problem.

berrymaria 1-Mar-16 3:53am

Hi Sir, this is the example.. Please advise? This line runs in VS 2013..

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28759525/middle%20dot.png

but doesn't in VS2015/2015 ..

Richard MacCutchan 1-Mar-16 4:31am

Just change the name so it does not contain the dot.

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2016-02-28T22:50:00

Solution 1

As far as I know there is no option. C# creates Unicode applications.

The only reason to use multi byte would be supporting Windows 9x. But even that can use Unicode with an additional DLL.

If you want to access files with multi byte encoding use the Encoding Class (System.Text)[^] to convert text (e.g. read MBCS file binary, convert to Unicode, process, convert back to MBCS, write binary).

Posted 28-Feb-16 22:50pm

Jochen Arndt

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berrymaria 1-Mar-16 4:30am

Hi Sir, this is the example.. Please advise? This line runs in VS 2013..

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28759525/middle%20dot.png

but doesn't in VS2015/2012 ..

public const string バー·ー = "0"; error due to ·

public const string バーー = "0"; no error

Jochen Arndt 1-Mar-16 4:53am

This may be a problem with the encoding used by your source file. By default C# should use UTF-8. You should try to find out what kind of encoding is used by the source file and convert it if necessary. Check also if there is a BOM (Byte Order Mark) at the beginning of the file. If so Visual Studio will know the encoding.

You may also check the Unicode code point for the dot character in question to determine to which category it belongs. While punctuation characters are allowed, other's may be not.
See
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa664670.aspx
and Chapter 4.5 at
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/ch04.pdf

'Pc' would be allowed but not other P category types.