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A custom string to handle UTF8 natively in C#

by Pascal Ganaye

A custom C# string implementation that stores its data in a UTF8 byte array.

A Software Virtual Keyboard for Your WPF Apps

by JamesHurst

Walks through the creation of an on-screen virtual keyboard for entering non-ASCII chars

ASCII strings to Unicode in C++

by jean Davy

std::string source = "Hello World";std::wstring result( source.begin(), source.end() );One coding line less !

ASCII strings to Unicode in C++

by blytle

also since _bstr_t's have operator (char *) and operator (wchar_t *) if you have included comutil.h, you can use it to do your conversion.char * source = "this is my source" ;_bstr_t converter_temp(source) ;wstring target ;target = wstring(converter_temp) ;... and the other way...

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A custom string to handle UTF8 natively in C#

by Pascal Ganaye

A custom C# string implementation that stores its data in a UTF8 byte array.

A Software Virtual Keyboard for Your WPF Apps

by JamesHurst

Walks through the creation of an on-screen virtual keyboard for entering non-ASCII chars

ASCII strings to Unicode in C++

by jean Davy

std::string source = "Hello World";std::wstring result( source.begin(), source.end() );One coding line less !

ASCII strings to Unicode in C++

by blytle

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Unicode

A Software Virtual Keyboard for Your WPF Apps

by JamesHurst

Walks through the creation of an on-screen virtual keyboard for entering non-ASCII chars

Character Map in WPF

by Jawahar Suresh Babu

Character Map is a free utility found in Windows Machines. It is similar to the "Insert Symbol" tool in few MS Office applications. This article explains how to implement this tool using WPF.

Class to read Unicode character names and a tool to display/search them

by Eric Lynch

A class to read Unicode character names and a tool to display/search them.

DataProvider - A Static Library for Handling Databases from C++

by Michael Haephrati

A Static Library which can be used for all kinds of database related needs

Reading and writing Unicode data in .NET

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article is for beginners about writing and reading Unicode data from different data sources; including text files, user input, databases. It also demonstrates how to display that data in .NET applications, including ASP.NET web applications.

Reading Turkish RSS Feed in Console with Turkish Fonts

by Erol Esen

This article has a usable software tool to read RSS feeds and it is especially designed to read and display Unicode characters inside a console window.

Tracking Microsoft Solutions (a Newer SCM tool)

by sbarnes

A small utility that feature-creeped into Yet Another SCM tool - a useful app to examine

Unicode Buddy

by yetibrain

Unicode Buddy is a tool to inspect unicode files. It can detect orphaned surrogates and invalid utf-8 sequences. It is able to show the encoding/decoding of a certain codepoint. It is not an editor but a viewer.

What are TCHAR, WCHAR, LPSTR, LPWSTR, LPCTSTR (etc.)?

by Ajay Vijayvargiya

Many Windows C++ programmers get confused over what bizarre data type identifiers like TCHAR and LPCTSTR are. Here, in brief, I will try to clear out the fog.

What Every Developer Should Know About Character Encoding

by David Thielen

If you write code that touches a text file, you probably need this.