1 Garnet is Connecticut's state mineral. 2  Eubrontes is the state fossil, visit Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill to learn more. 3  The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain. 4  The highest elevation in Connecticut is the slope of Mount Frissel at 2380' (the peak, 2,453' is in MA).
Unicode is a character encoding standard that has widespread acceptance. Microsoft software uses Unicode at its core. Whether you realize it or not, you are using Unicode already! Basically, âcomputers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers.
Windows natively supports Unicode strings for UI elements, file names, and so forth. Unicode is the preferred character encoding, because it supports all character sets and languages. Windows represents Unicode characters using UTF-16 encoding, in which each character is encoded as a 16-bit value. UTF-16 characters are called wide characters, to distinguish them from 8-bit ANSI characters. The Visual C++ compiler supports the built-in data type wchar_t for wide characters.