Reading ANSI string from UNICODE app.

[WilliamGS]

Hello everybody.
I have to read a string from registry, this string is ANSI, when I read it with ANSI version of my app, all is fine, but if I read it with UNICODE version of my app, the string obtained is wrong, so, how can I read a ANSI string (from registry) from a UNICODE app?.

Thansk in advance,
William GS

 

[dEVooXiAm]

Although I haven't run into such problems ever, but I think that registry strings are all unicode "in nature". Could it be, that you expect an ANSI string when calling a Unicode API function? I think you should get a Unicode string, and then do the conversion to ANSI string if needed.

Btw, this is just a try to solve this. I might be wrong on assumptions I made for the exact problem you're having.

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