How do I turn off Unicode in a VC project

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I have a VC   project in Visual Studio 2008    It is defining the symbols  for unicode on the compiler command line   D   UNICODE   D  UNICODE    even though I do not have this symbol turned on in the preprocessor section for the project       As a result I am compiling against the Unicode versions of all the Win32 library functions  as opposed to the ANSI ones   For example in WinBase h  there is     ifdef UNICODE  define CreateFile  CreateFileW  else  define CreateFile  CreateFileA  endif     UNICODE   Where is the unicode being turned on in the VC   project  how can I turn it off

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project properities -  configuration properities -  general -  charater set

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From VS2019 Project Properties - Advanced - Advanced Properties - Character Set   Also if there is  UNICODE UNICODE Preprocessors Definitions remove them  Project Properties - C C   - Preprocessor -  Preprocessor Definition

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you can go to project properties --  configuration properties --  General -- Project default  and there change the  Character set  from  Unicode  to  Not set

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None of the above solutions worked for me   But    include  lt Windows h gt    worked fine

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For whatever reason  I noticed that setting to unicode for  All Configurations  did not actually apply to all configurations   Picture    To confirm this  I would open the  vcxproj and confirm the correct token is in all 4 locations  In this photo  I am using unicode  So the string I am looking for is  Unicode   For you  you likely want it to say  MultiByte    Picture

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Burgos has the right answer  Just to clarify  the Character Set should be changed to  Not Set

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Have you tried  Project Properties - General - Project Defaults - Character Set    See answers in this question for the differences between  Use Multi-Byte Character Set  and  Not Set  options  About the  quot Character set quot  option in visual studio 2010

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use  undef UNICODE at the top of your main file

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