How to convert std::string to LPCWSTR in C++ (Unicode)

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The solution is actually a lot easier than any of the other suggestions:

std::wstring stemp = std::wstring(s.begin(), s.end());
LPCWSTR sw = stemp.c_str();

Best of all, it’s platform independent.

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