Re: How to disable unicode from OS image

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From: Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] (ptobey)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:59:22 -0700

Windows CE is *always* Unicode. There may be some MBCS versions of some
functions, but the OS itself operates in Unicode.

Why would you want to do that?

Paul T.

"Nguyen Nguyen" <nnguyen@triverity.com> wrote in message
news:eACEc7SwEHA.2116@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hello experts,
>
> How do I disable all the unicode stuff from the OS image? I selected US
> locale, but it still uses wide character api. For example, the WCHAR is
> defined as wchar_t as supposed to char. The minute I hand coded #undef
> UNICODE, platform builder complained about not being able to find the
> ascii
> version of the library. In my case, the error message is : "unresolved
> external symbol FindNextFileA"
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nguyen
>
>

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