Unicode sources in eMbedded Visual C++, unicode string literals

Question

Hi all,

I'm back-porting a Windows Mobile project from Visual Studio 2005 to eMbedded Visual C++, 'cause VS2005 does not compile for the SH3 CPU family, only SH4. I ran into the fact that eVC 3 does not support Unicode sources, and I have quite a few of those, not easily convertible to a single-byte encoding.

Question - between eVC 4, VS.NET, and VS.NET 2003, is there a compiler that supports both SH3 and Unicode sources?

Question 2: does anyone know of a tool that would convert extended characters in string literals in a Unicode C source from as-is to \x0000 representation?

Thanks in advance.