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Re: Serious ;-): How does Windows pass non-ascii filename to executable?
Hi Igor,
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
[snip]
> Microsoft uses jumping hippos to cram wide characters into narrow
^
Bah! Typical Microsoft. All they needed to do was use a h instead of a
j, and they would have had a far more effective solution.
> applications. This is all described quite clearly in this MSDN article:
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vccelng/htm/basic_20.asp>. Don't
Thanks very much for that.
> Making the app non-console has nothing to do with this. Even with WinMain
> (which is probably what you were thinking about), you have to use the
> hippos (i.e., the initial "w") to make it Unicode.
And equally so for this.
Best regards,
Shaddy