{"id":29363,"date":"2006-10-17T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/10\/17\/what-does-the-letter-t-in-lptstr-stand-for\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T10:00:03","slug":"what-does-the-letter-t-in-lptstr-stand-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061017-03\/?p=29363","title":{"rendered":"What does the letter "T" in LPTSTR stand for?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “T” in LPTSTR<\/code> comes from the “T” in TCHAR<\/code><\/a>. I don’t know for certain, but it seems pretty likely that it stands for “text”. By comparison, the “W” in WCHAR<\/code> probably comes from the C language standard, where it stands for “wide”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “T” in LPTSTR comes from the “T” in TCHAR. I don’t know for certain, but it seems pretty likely that it stands for “text”. By comparison, the “W” in WCHAR probably comes from the C language standard, where it stands for “wide”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-29363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

The “T” in LPTSTR comes from the “T” in TCHAR. I don’t know for certain, but it seems pretty likely that it stands for “text”. By comparison, the “W” in WCHAR probably comes from the C language standard, where it stands for “wide”.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}