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Re: Serious ;-): How does Windows pass non-ascii filename toexecutable?
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 1 01:00, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Igor, that's Unicorn, not Unicode. However, beats me how hippos can
> help to make unicorns. Well, I guess they are near relatives, what with
> the natural grace and everything, but on the genetic side I see a
> problem or two...
I don't. A Unicorn is a Hippo on a diet, whose wife cheated on him once.
Igor
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