RE: First of many newbie questions

[Marco Cimarosti]

Pascal Maheu wrote:
> - How does using non-spacing characters like "^"
>   interact with say an "e" to form a "ê"?
> - [...] what is the difference btw UTF-8, 16 and
>   32? Why would one want to use one instead of the other?

See the Unicode FAQ (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/), sections
"Characters, Combining Marks" and "UTF & BOM".

> - [...] How do I tell my VC++ compiler to do that?

See the Help, article "Using Generic-Text Mappings" (in the I&ndex tab,
locate "_UNICODE").

_ Marco