widechar is a generic name for character sets wider than ASCII
The term widechar is a generic name for character sets wider than 8 bits. Generally this means some (unspecified) 16 or 32 bit Unicode encoding.
Questions tagged [widechar]
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Window for taking getch input not showing using ncursesw but works with ncurses
I need to use -lncursesw to print out unicode characters otherwise it wouldn't work however after compiling it with this, the window for user input shows up but when I type characters to it, it doesn't show but still able to type. I honestly don't…
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Heap corruption while trying to free a wchar_t pointer
This is a code that evaluates if a wide string is either L"false" or L"true", but when I try to run it, it gives me this error when trying to free the duplicate string pointer "HEAP CORRUPTION DETECTED: after Normal block(#135756) at…
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C++ 11: Adding an int to a wchar_t
I naively added an int to a wchar_t resulting in a Visual Studio 2013 warning.
L'A' + 1 // next letter
warning C4244: 'argument' : conversion from 'int' to 'wchar_t', possible loss of data
So the error is concerned that a 4 byte int is being…
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The size parameter from function
I see that a lot of functions need you to set a size for the string which is the output.
GetComputerNameW needs:
WCHAR wStrName[16U];
DWORD uSize = 16U;
GetComputerNameW(wStrName, &uSize);
RegSetValueExW needs:
WCHAR…
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Cannot use wide strings in C/C++ Visual Studio, even though it works in CodeBlocks using MinGW
I'm trying to use the Windows API in Visual Studio 2019. The problem is that when I'm trying to create a wide string, using something like this: L"Hello World!", I get an error: 'L': identifier not found
Then, I tried using the TEXT() function,…
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GetWindowTextW doesnt grab a wide string
I have the following code which gets the data from the textbox input ( pure winapi )
BOOL CALLBACK DlgProc(HWND hw, UINT msg, WPARAM wp, LPARAM lp) {
switch (msg)
{
case WM_INITDIALOG:
SendDlgItemMessage(hw, IDC_EDITMASK,…
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Linux wide string to multibyte issue
I know there are many questions already asked on this topic but I am facing a very unusual situation here.
I am working in Centos. My application reads some data in wchar_t and converts in multibyte (UTF-8 encoding) and fills the char buffer in a…
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What is the difference between Ansichar and char?
I recently ran into this data type mismatch. This is I never saw before. I hope someone could explain what these are and how are they different.
Error I got was F2063. [DCC Error] E2010 Incompatible types: 'AnsiChar' and 'Char'
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