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Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 08:25:33 +0200

Gary R. Van Sickle <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> wrote:
>> I was looking at the cygwin code.
>> Functions like cygwin_logon_user() makes a call to LogonUserA(). It is
>> explicitly calling ascii version.
[..]> 
> Remember that Cygwin still has to run on Win9x :-(, so that's probably where the
> XxxxYyyyA() calls come from.

It is still doable. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mslu/winprog/microsoft_layer_for_unicode_on_windows_95_98_me_systems.asp

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