Unicode in Microsoft Windows: Difference between revisions

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Earlier, and independent of the "UNICODE" switch, Windows also provided the Multibyte Character Sets (MBCS) API switch.<ref>{{cite web|title=Support for Multibyte Character Sets (MBCSs)|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/text/support-for-multibyte-character-sets-mbcss?view=vs-2019|access-date=2020-06-15|language=en}}</ref> This changes some functions that don't work in MBCS such as <code>strrev</code> to an MBCS-aware one such as <code>_mbsrev</code>.<ref>{{cite web|title=Double-byte Character Sets|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/double-byte-character-sets|website=MSDN|access-date=2020-06-15|date=2018-05-31|quote=our applications use DBCS Windows code pages with the "A" versions of Windows functions.}}</ref><ref>[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/strrev-wcsrev-mbsrev-mbsrev-l _strrev, _wcsrev, _mbsrev, _mbsrev_l] Microsoft Docs</ref>

Microsoft documentation used the term "Unicode" to mean "not 8-bit encoding".{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

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