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Line 18: == UTF-8 == Although the locale can be set so the 'M' encodings handle ''some'' multi-byte encodings, it is not possible to set them to use [[UTF-8]] ([[code page 65001]]) which is only used for explicit conversion functions such as MultiByteToWideChar~~. The code page can however be set manually by a program for itself, e.g. via <code>chcp</code> in [[cmd.exe]]~~. As many libraries, including the standard C and C++ library, only allow access to files using the 'M' API, it is not possible to open all Unicode-named files with them. Thus Unicode is not supported by Windows in software using a portable API. There are proposals to add an API to portable libraries such as [[Boost (C++ libraries)\|Boost]] to do the necessary conversion, by adding new functions for opening and renaming files. These functions would pass filenames through unchanged on Unix, but translate them to UTF-16 on Windows.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://cppcms.com/files/nowide/html/\|title=Boost.Nowide}}</ref>

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