| description | Learn more about: Benefits of Character Set Portability | ||
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| title | Benefits of Character Set Portability | ||
| ms.date | 11/04/2016 | ||
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You can benefit from using MFC and C run-time portability features even if you do not currently intend to internationalize your application:
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Coding portably makes your code base flexible. You can later move it easily to Unicode or MBCS.
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Using Unicode makes your applications for Windows more efficient. Because Windows uses Unicode, non-Unicode strings passed to and from the operating system must be translated, which incurs overhead.