#FINALE NOTEPAD VS FINALE WINDOWS#

Try adding something like this right after CreateFile: WCHAR bom = 0xFEFF Notepad will accept this, if you start the file with an appropriate byte-order mark ( Recall that WCHAR is two bytes large.ДЄssuming the two points above are not in fact a problem, you are writing UTF-16LE encoding (the native Unicode encoding on Windows). How is count_to_output calculated? WriteFile wants length in bytes, not in characters. You didn't use the ampersand in your wcscat_s call - why do you feel the need to use it here?

What type is m_log_message? &m_log_message may or may not be wrong. I tend to accept more work on my part to get better efficiency. Does that negate any of this post?Д®dit again: Most of my applications process data at a rather high data rate, multiple streams of telemetry at more than 10 Mega bits/second. The goal for this app is to quickly write plain simple messages to a text file.Д®dit: I see Igor's next entry about using FILE* rather than HANDLE.

What is the fundamental concept I need to change or add? The app is closed and the resultant file is opened with Wordpad (etc) and there are spaces between every character. Then the file is written like this: write_log_status = WriteFile( The final string build looks like this: wcscat_s( m_log_message, MAX_LOG_STRING_LENGTH, data_to_log ) Omitting all the error checking it gets time and puts them in a WCHAR string to prefix and time stamp each entry. My class has this function: bool C_Log_Writer::Write_Log_File_Entry( const WCHAR *data_to_log ) Ok, I will accept that I am doing this wrong. ~jag77 We need to know what a dragon is before we study its anatomy.

In the age of Unicode and the need to quickly look at files with Notepad, which is the best choice. Should programmers using Visual Studio go with the file functions that use: So that is why I am dealing withВ this problem. But per the book, all my apps will run more efficiently using Unicode.

#FINALE NOTEPAD VS FINALE WINDOWS#

To the book, Windows has NOT and is NOT fullВ integrated withВ Unicode.Д«TW: as noted in the OP, I have absolutely no concern about non ASCII characters. But, as far as I can tell, notepad, wordpad, and Word do not read a Unicode file correctly. The book referenced in the OP says Windows uses Unicode throughout.

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It's even described on the same documentation page together with fopen.Д®dit: If the file is opened that way, the text to write to it remains Unicode. (In the meantime, I will be trying that.)ДЇopen takes a file name defined as char, not as WCHAR. If I do switch to wfopen_s, and change my write statements to use a FILE declaration type, when I write a Unicode string to that file, will notepad be able to display it without all the extra spaces. From what I can tell, the two are incompatible.Д«ut they are compatible with, say, fwprintf. To give it an array of bytes that's a valid encoding of some Unicode text.ДЇopen, wfopen, and wfopen_s require a FILE declaration. It doesn't know nor care about any text encoding, Unicode or otherwise. For all it knows, you are saving an image, or an audio file, or some other piece of binary data. WriteFile accepts an array of bytes, and writes it out exactly as is. WriteFile() accepts Unicode strings and writes via the file handle. This app currently uses CreateFile(), taking a Unicode file name and providing a file handle. If they couldn't read your file, it must be because you didn't write it correctly. As IВ see it, that would be the point, not defeat it.

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