Re: GetGlyphOutline API

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Having switched to UNICODE it started getting the wrong answer when
nChar=131 (but not others which I have detected so far).
....
So why is this?
Is it a bug?

Because 131 is interpreted by GetGlyphOutlineA
as a character in the current system code page (ansi code page).
If ansi the system is English US, ansi cp is 1252, and 131 (decimal)
is "single low-9 quotation mark", which most likely exists in your font.

But 131 is interpreted by GetGlyphOutlineW
as a Unicode. Which is a (non-visible) control character, most likely non-
existent as a glyph in any normal font.


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