INFO: UTF8 Support (175392)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0
This article was previously published under Q175392 SUMMARY
UTF8 is a code page that uses a string of bytes to represent a 16-bit
Unicode string where ASCII text (<=U+007F) remains unchanged as a single
byte, U+0080-07FF (including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Arabic) is
converted to a 2-byte sequence, and U+0800-FFFF (Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
and others) becomes a 3-byte sequence.
The advantage is that most ASCII text remains unchanged and almost all
editors can read it.
Windows NT4.0 supports Unicode<->UTF8 translation via
MultiByteToWideChar()/WideCharToMultiByte(), using CP_UTF8 for the CodePage
parameter, but it only works when none of the flags are set for dwFlags
(therefore, you need to specify 0 for dwFlags).
Also, UTF8 is not a valid encoding for command line arguments for Windows
NT 4.0 or 5.0, and it is not supported on Windows 95.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 7/11/2005 |
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| Keywords: | kbinfo kbIntl kbIntlDev KB175392 |
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