"Anders F Björklund" <afb@algonet.se> wrote in message news:cltfq3$2hqn$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> PS. I think that it's only Windows NT (2K,XP) that uses Unicode,
>      while Windows 95 (98,ME) uses ASCII... But I could be wrong?

95, 98 and ME can have the UTF-16 API's installed (redistributable DLL's).
Both (the old) 8-bit char API and UTF-16 API are (currently) available
on all the currently supported WIN32 platforms.

Roald