34
What it takes to pass a file path to a Windows API in C++
(mastodon.gamedev.place)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
34 points (92.5% liked)
Programming
17028 readers
243 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Linux APIs are 8bit, instead of 16bit, however the filesystem encoding can be anything if the user wants.
In practice we all use UTF-8 but correct software has to encode to the correct one just in case.
There is also still a max path length, but it’s longer like 4096.