In different encodings of Unicode, for example UTF-16le or UTF-8, a character may occupy 2 or 3 bytes. Many Unicode applications doesn't take care of display width of Unicode chars just like they a...

The Windows _setmbcp function allows any valid code page... (except UTF-7 and UTF-8, which are not supported) OK, not supporting UTF-7 makes sense: Characters have non-unique representations and ...

I'm trying to read CSV files with Western Europe (windows) encoding df = pd.read_csv(FileName,encoding='mbcs', usecols=[1],header=4) This code works well on Windows but not on Linux 18.04. (Err...

I opened my existing MFC project using Visual Studio and when I build I get the following error message: Error 1 error MSB8031: Use of MBCS encoding in MFC projects require an additional library t...

I am working on one project where I have stucked on one problem of converting CStringW to CStringA for multibyte string like Japanese Language. I am loading the string from string resources using ...

I am reading about the charater set and encodings on Windows. I noticed that there are two compiler flags in Visual Studio compiler (for C++) called MBCS and UNICODE. What is the difference between...

I have a string: "apple". How can I convert only the first character to uppercase and get a new string in the form of "Apple"? I can also have a string with multibyte characters. What if the firs...

I'm wondering what the Stack Overflow community thinks when it comes to creating a project (thinking primarily c++ here) with a unicode or a multi-byte character set. Are there pros to going Unic...

I have a large MFC application that I am extending to allow for multi-lingual input. At the moment I need to allow the user to enter Unicode data in edit boxes on a single dialog. Is there a way t...