#31 UNICODE support

[WarrenStevens]

I'd like to request support for _UNICODE / UNICODE
builds (for my Visual Studio 2005 code)

I DID read the post about this being too much work
(i.e. more testing), but I'm going to submit this
anyway, in hopes it gets done at some point.

Perhaps a good starting point to get this done would be
to use a single typedef / #define section to define an
alias to be used within the rest of the TinyXML
functions. i.e.

#ifdef _UNICODE
typedef const wchar_t* PC_TINY_STR
const std::wstring& STL_TINY_STR
#else
typedef const char* PC_TINY_STR
const std::string& STL_TINY_STR
#endif

This:
1) wouldn't change any of the existing code (in terms
of extra complexity, or making the project "un-tiny")

2) could be moved in a little at a time.

I realize this is not all that has to be done for
UTF-16 support, but it would make the rest of the
changes easier.

My two cents...

Warren

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I second this request.
I don't see anyone using this library in a comercial app until
UNICODE support is available.

[WarrenStevens]

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Please refer to my post in the patch section:

[ 1256162 ] using TinyXML with _UNICODE defined and
MFC/ATL CString

for the code I wrote for this issue.

Warren