Seeing unicode strings in watch window

[SDowd]

does anyone know how to setup visual studio so that in the watch boxes rather than looking at a bunch of hex values for unicode strings, i can see the actual string/value.
thanks in advance
steve

 

[xwb]

Check your compiler setting for wchar_t. It should be treated as a basic type, otherwise Unicode strings are arrays of short and you will just get a bunch of hex numbers.

 

[SDowd]

thank you

 

[SDowd]

if you want to write a wide character out you should use a wide stream. it appears that the "ý" prints because its actually the size of a char. casting it to a char defeats the purpose. i dont know what type of stream outfile is, but you may want to try with that, making it a wide stream object.
thats only a guess though, im not too familiar with using hex or unicode.

so maybe it would look like this:

outfile << 0x00FD << 0x039E;

i guess just by coincidence the "ý" fits into a char. i hope this helps. but like i said, im not too familiar with the subject.
good luck.