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		Dwedit on May 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compile... The problem with Windows 9x is the 'ANSI' APIs everywhere, and no support for Unicode. Oddly enough, we are actually going backwards from using the UTF-16 APIs back to using 'ANSI' APIs, and simultaneously setting the process code page to UTF-8. Any time you use ANSI APIs, there is a hidden conversion step (allocation, conversion, copying) where your text is converted into UTF-16.

josephcsible on May 13, 2023 [–]

> The problem with Windows 9x is the 'ANSI' APIs everywhere, and no support for Unicode.

Didn't you just need to install https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Layer_for_Unicode aka UNICOWS.DLL to fix that?

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