GetFirstFile() and non-english chars

Hi,
When using GetFirstFile() / GetNextFile(), if a file is encountered with Chinese chars in it's filename, each of these chars is replaced with a "?".
As a result, I cant open the file as I dont know its full name.
Does anyone know of a way around this? Some Windows SDK function maybe?
cheers,
Darrin.

Hi Diz@work,
Thanks for posting on the NI Discusson Forums.
I have a couple questions for you in order to troubleshoot this issue:
Which language is your Windows operating system set to? Chinese or English?
When you say that the filename returned contains '?' characters instead of the Chinese characters, do you mean you see this when you output to a message popup panel or print to the console? Are you looking at the values in fileName as you're debugging? Can you take a look at the actual numerical values in the fileName array and see which characters they map to? It's possible that the Chinese characters are being returned correctly, but the function you're using to output them doesn't understand the codes they use.
Which function are you using to open the file with the fileName you get from GetFirstFile()? Can you take a look at what's being passed to it?
CVI does include support for multi-byte characters. Take a look at this introduction:
http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/370051V-01/cvi/programmerref/programmingmultibytechars/
As far as the Windows SDK goes, I did find that the GetFirstFile() and GetNextFile() functions are based on the Windows functions, FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile(). According to MSDN, these functions are capable of handling Unicode characters as well as ASCII:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364418(v=vs.85).aspx
There may be a discrepancy between how these functions are being called and/or what they're returning to the CVI wrapper functions.
Frank L.
Software Product Manager
National Instruments

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edwardch wrote:
> thanks, tried Arial unicode MS, but unfortunately my
hosting server doesn't
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http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=FontDownloads
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