Re: How to make folderitem from UTF16 path string on Windows?

[support at monkeybreadsoftware dot de (Christian Schmitz)]

Brian Rathbone <brian dot rathbone at learningstation dot com> wrote:

> Is it the fact that the path is UTF16 that is causing the standard way of
> getting a folderitem to fail?

The standard way is to give RB a CString which is normally 8bit per
character. "Hello" as UTF16 contains as bytes 5 times a zero, so the
string end would be found to early.
 
> Could you use GetShortPathNameW to get a usable short path?

No. Input and Output are Unicode on this function.

Mfg
Christian

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