MBCS Conversion Routines

MBCS Conversion Routines

There are four MBCS conversion routines:

Two convert Japan Industry Standard characters to Microsoft Kanji characters or vice versa.
Two convert between a codepage multibyte character string and a Unicode string.

These routines are summarized in the following table.

MBCS Conversion Routines

Name	Procedure Type	Description
MBConvertMBToUnicode	Function	Converts a character string from a multibyte codepage to a Unicode string
MBConvertUnicodeToMB	Function	Converts a Unicode string to a multibyte character string of the current codepage
MBJISToJMS	Function	Converts a Japan Industry Standard (JIS) character to a Microsoft Kanji (Shift JIS or JMS) character
MBJMSToJIS	Function	Converts a Microsoft Kanji (Shift JIS or JMS) character to a Japan Industry Standard (JIS) character