Programming tips, tricks and thoughts by Slava Tutushkin

It's strange, but default generated projects are configured to use Multibyte instead of Unicode option.

Hopefully, it's very easy to fix. Just add this line in your top CMakeLists.txt file.

add_definitions(-DUNICODE -D_UNICODE)

Not a problem at all anymore.

PS. As it turned out, there is discussion about it in the CMake mailing list on the last month. Stupid me had to reinvent the wheels.

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