Windows API: ANSI and Wide-Character Strings — Is it UTF8 or ASCII? UTF-16 or UCS-2 LE?

Question

I\'m not quite pro with encodings, but here\'s what I think I know (though it may be wrong):

1. ASCII is a 7-bit, fixed-length encoding, with the characters you c

Answer 1

Wide strings used to be UCS-2. From Windows 2000, wide strings are UTF-16. Good to know if you need to maintain some old legacy system.