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copied!<p>If your compiler Character Setting is set to <strong>Unicode Character Set</strong>, then <strong>LPTSTR</strong> will be interpreted as <strong>wchar_t*</strong>. In that case Unicode to Multibyte character conversion is required.<br> (In Visual Studio, setting is located at Project Properties\Configuration Properties\General\Character Set)<br></p> <p>The sample code below should give an idea:</p> <pre><code>#include <windows.h> /* string consisting of several Asian characters */ LPTSTR wcsString = L"\u9580\u961c\u9640\u963f\u963b\u9644"; //LPTSTR wcsString = L"OnlyAsciiCharacters"; char* encode(const wchar_t* wstr, unsigned int codePage) { int sizeNeeded = WideCharToMultiByte(codePage, 0, wstr, -1, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL); char* encodedStr = new char[sizeNeeded]; WideCharToMultiByte(codePage, 0, wstr, -1, encodedStr, sizeNeeded, NULL, NULL); return encodedStr; } wchar_t* decode(const char* encodedStr, unsigned int codePage) { int sizeNeeded = MultiByteToWideChar(codePage, 0, encodedStr, -1, NULL, 0); wchar_t* decodedStr = new wchar_t[sizeNeeded ]; MultiByteToWideChar(codePage, 0, encodedStr, -1, decodedStr, sizeNeeded ); return decodedStr; } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { char* str = encode(wcsString, CP_UTF8); //UTF-8 encoding wchar_t* wstr = decode(str, CP_UTF8); //If the wcsString is UTF-8 encodable, then this comparison will result to true. //(As i remember some of the Chinese dialects cannot be UTF-8 encoded bool ok = memcmp(wstr, wcsString, sizeof(wchar_t) * wcslen(wcsString)) == 0; delete str; delete wstr; str = encode(wcsString, 20127); //US-ASCII (7-bit) encoding wstr = decode(str, 20127); //If there were non-ascii characters existing on wcsString, //we cannot return back, since some of the data is lost ok = memcmp(wstr, wcsString, sizeof(wchar_t) * wcslen(wcsString)) == 0; delete str; delete wstr; } </code></pre> <p>On the other hand, if your compiler Character Setting is set to Multibyte, then <strong>LPTSTR</strong> will be interpreted as <strong>char*</strong>.<br></p> <p>In that case:</p> <pre><code>LPTSTR x = "test"; char* y; y = x; </code></pre> <p>Also see:</p> <p>Another discussion about wchar_t conversion: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/215963/how-do-you-properly-use-widechartomultibyte">How do you properly use WideCharToMultiByte</a><br> MSDN Article: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd374130(v=vs.85).aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd374130(v=vs.85).aspx</a><br> Valid Code Page Identifiers: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317756(v=vs.85).aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317756(v=vs.85).aspx</a></p>

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