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I have a string: "apple" . How can I convert only the first character to uppercase and get a new string in the form of "Apple" ? I can also have a string with multibyte characters. What if the first character of the string is a multibyte character ? string str = "something"; str[0] = toupper(str[0]); That's all you need to do. It also works for C strings. I cannot use str[0] because, I can have string which has multibyte characters I don't know of any CRT implementation that supports non-ASCII character classification and conversion. If you want to support Unicode then everything is much more

I opened my existing MFC project using Visual Studio and when I build I get the following error message: Error 1 error MSB8031: Use of MBCS encoding in MFC projects require an additional library to be downloaded and installed. Please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=286820 for more information. C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\v120\Microsoft.CppBuild.targets What is this about? This error message is due to the missing MBCS MFC package. Starting with Visual Studio 2013, MBCS portion of the MFC library has been broken out of the Visual Studio product into its own separate

I am reading about the charater set and encodings on Windows. I noticed that there are two compiler flags in Visual Studio compiler (for C++) called MBCS and UNICODE. What is the difference between them ? What I am not getting is how UTF-8 is conceptually different from a MBCS encoding ? Also, I found the following quote in MSDN : Unicode is a 16-bit character encoding This negates whatever I read about the Unicode. I thought unicode can be encoded with different encodings such as UTF-8 and UTF-16. Can somebody shed some more light on this confusion? dan04 I noticed that there are two compiler