What is the difference between ANSI and UNICODE strings when passed as argumen

What is the difference between ANSI and UNICODE strings
when passed as arguments to a DLL?

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What is the difference between ANSI and UNICODE strings when passed as arguments to a DLL?..

Answer / kaan

ANSI support 256 different characters
so it will take 8 bit to store single character

but

UNICODE support 65536 different character,so it will take
16 bit to store single character and it is more complex

This differences should consider while u interact with
unmanaged code(win32 api),export functions etc.,

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What is the difference between ANSI and UNICODE strings when passed as arguments to a DLL?..

Answer / vipul

ANSI: This standard provided 256 different symbols that a
computer can use. It was quick, efficient, and easy to
implement. All modern operating systems fully understand
ASCII.

UNICODE: Unicode which allowed for up to 65,536 different
characters. Since Unicode is more complex it is not
implemented on many operating systems. In terms of
Microsoft; Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and
Windows 2003 support Unicode as will all future releases of
Windows.

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What is the difference between ANSI and UNICODE strings when passed as arguments to a DLL?..

Answer / guest

ANSI - one byte for a char
UNICODE - two bytes per char - works only on NT

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