Converting unicode filenames to ANSI

Would like to find a convenient way to convert a unicode filename to ansi -

Have a project that needs to be able to recognize and open files with foreign chars in the fileame.

It could be compiled in unicode to make use of the unicode versions of the file routines, but doing so creates a problem with the document converter.

GetOpenFileName() replaces the chars that it can't represent as '?' chars and so the original filename is lost, so programmatically renaming or creating a temp copy with an ANSI name seems to be out of the question.

So, is there a means to do this without recompiling as unicode?

thanks

Just use the wide API's. You don't have change any compiler setting for that.

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WINCOMMDLGAPI BOOL APIENTRY GetOpenFileNameA(LPOPENFILENAMEA);
WINCOMMDLGAPI BOOL APIENTRY GetOpenFileNameW(LPOPENFILENAMEW);
#ifdef UNICODE
#define GetOpenFileName GetOpenFileNameW
#else
#define GetOpenFileName GetOpenFileNameA
#endif // !UNICODE

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Just use the "W" versions.

gg

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Originally Posted by CaptainKirk

GetOpenFileName() replaces the chars that it can't represent as '?' chars and so the original filename is lost, so programmatically renaming or creating a temp copy with an ANSI name seems to be out of the question.

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How do you think convert it would change that fact? It most certainly will not.
Unicode can represent a far wider amount of characters than ANSI. Convert it to ANSI would just insert more "?" into it anyway.
Just use Wide APIs as Codeplug mentioned.

I'm aware of the wide versions - the development scheme here is that these things have been wrappered for the sake of cross-platform development and I have no permissions to change the library....

I was hoping there was another way around this, but maybe I can convince the powers that be that mods are needed in the lib....

thanks all...