MBCS Programming Tips

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This section supplies tips for successful multibyte character set (MBCS) programming. The advice applies to MFC applications and applications written without MFC. Topics include:

• General MBCS programming advice

• Incrementing and decrementing pointers

• Byte indices

• Last character in a string

• Character assignment

• Character comparison

• Buffer overflow