What does it mean when my text is displayed as Question Marks?

Question

I\'m attempting to display some text in my program using (say) Windows GDI and some of the unicode characters are displayed as question marks? What is up?

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Answer 1

It means your Unicode text is getting converted to ANSI text somewhere. Since Unicode characters outside of Latin-1 can't be converted to ANSI, they are converted to question marks. Make sure that your program is compiled with Unicode support on (i.e. the preprocessor symbols UNICODE and _UNICODE are #defined by your project), so that you're always calling the proper Unicode versions of the various Windows functions.