dealing with Unicode strings on MS-Windows?

"Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril" <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:14:04 +0100

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Hi,

does anybody know how MS-Windows works with Unicode strings? What encoding do they use? UTF-8? UTF-16? xy?

Do they consistently use 16bit (C type "short") for one character?

Who has got some experience with Unicode and Common Lisp? how much headache is it to deal with unicode, ASCII, xyz all in one?

If it matters, I'd be more interested in how MS-Windows NT or 2000 operate.

Thanks for your help,
	JÃ¶rg HÃ¶hle.