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[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Troy Rollo" <wine at troy.rollo.name> wrote:

> > Did you test specifically A->W conversion of the message data or something
> > else?
> 
> I tested the CP_ACP conversions and the GetACP call.

Actually you didn't answer the question. GetACP() by itself shows nothing,
only actual API tests could show something useful.

> I also disassembled 
> kernel32.dll to see how it populated CP_ACP (if I recall correctly it 
> populated it from a registry key under either HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG or 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, so perhaps a change in the registry could cause the same 
> behaviour as a process calling SetCPGlobal, but threads within a single 
> process can never have a different CP_ACP).

I don't believe it, especially since SetThreadLocale exists.

And ...

> Even if it doesn't work on current Windows platforms I don't see
> why Microsoft can't fix it and make it work in future versions.

-- 
Dmitry.