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