Can someone tell me what the definition UNICODE is? I see it everywhere in the windows headers and i dont have a clue what it is. Thanks

Its an extended character set. MUCH LARGER than ASCII

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It''s a character set that is two bytes per character (at least in Windows), and contains slots for most of the characters in the world.

The "regular" character set that you''re probably used to is called ASCII and can handle English and most western european languages but can''t do (say) Arabic or Japanese. A Unicode string on the other hand can contain English characters, or Arabic characters, or both, and the app doesn''t have to do anything special to store or do simple processing of those strings.

-Mike

Unicode strings are twice the size of ASCII ones. And I don''t often want to write in Russian, Greek, Arabic, Chinese languages or Japanese, so I don''t need it.
"Ascii is smaller than unicode" takes up 30 bytes including the NUL character.
"Ascii is smaller than unicode"w takes up 30 words or 60 bytes.
The w isn''t a typo, it just says the string is unicode.

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