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## [UTF-8 strings and Visual C++](https://blog.quasar.ai/2009/04/30/utf-8-strings-in-visual-c)

 Posted by [user](https://blog.quasar.ai/author/user) on 30 Apr 2009

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MAnd Unicode came to this world - Most of us don't work in ANSI or ASCII anymore. Most of the projects I work on are either [UTF-8](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8) or [UTF-16](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF_16).

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