Unicode and Character Sets - Win32 Programmer's Reference (win32.hlp)

Unicode and Character Sets

Unicode and traditional character sets give the Microsoft Windows operating system the means to support the many different written languages of the international marketplace. Unicode is a worldwide character-encoding standard that uses 16-bit character values to represent all the characters used in modern computing, including technical symbols and special characters used in publishing. Traditional character sets are previous character-encoding standards, such as the Windows ANSI character set, that use 8-bit character values or combinations of 8-bit values to represent the characters used in a specific language or geographical region.

This overview describes the character set functions and explains how to use them in your Win32-based applications.

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