Comments on: wmain vs _tmain

By: coderjoe

coderjoe — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:52:54 +0000

@hatchetman82

Cross platform unicode command line argument handling has been something that has eluded me for a while. As such I tend to just avoid command line arguments and use configuration files instead.

However, a quick search showed a single thread in a QT mailing list which mentions one possible solution.
http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2004-09/msg01171.html#msg01171

The suggestion is to cast your (char **argv) first element to an pointer of unsigned short… then use your unicode string conversion tools of choice. (In their case they use the QT libraries, but I’d imagine a similar solution would work for other tool sets.

I obviously haven’t tried this solution, best of luck to you!
If you get it working I’d love to hear how!

Cheers,
Joe

By: hatchetman82

hatchetman82 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:53:42 +0000

first of all thank you. i just got tired of staring at those long #define chains that plague the simplest of hello-world project trying to figure that one out. too bad i only resorted to googling it after 20 minutes.
the question (for me at least) is this: if wmain is windows-specific, is there a “standard” (as in ANSI, cross-platform standard) way to write unicode-capable C programs ?

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By: dstelow

dstelow — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:18:13 +0000

Most excellent!

By: noogat

noogat — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:12:22 +0000

Damn, finally, a clear answer. Thanks.

By: yl

yl — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:12:59 +0000

Very clear! Thanks

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:45:14 +0000

just what I was looking for, thanks coder joe.

By: youdontneedmyname

youdontneedmyname — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:12:41 +0000

Very helpful. Thanks!