Benefits of Character Set Portability
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You can benefit from using MFC and C run-time portability features even if you don’t currently intend to internationalize your application:
- Coding portably makes your code base flexible. You can later move it easily to Unicode or MBCS.
- Using Unicode makes your applications for Windows NT more efficient. Windows NT uses Unicode, so non-Unicode strings passed to and from the operating system must be translated, incurring overhead.
- Using MBCS enables you to support international markets on Win32 platforms other than Windows NT, such as Windows 95.
See Also Support for Unicode