Funnily enough, the "ANSI" versions of Win32 functions are no longer considered a legacy thing, now that the OS offers UTF-8 as the supported encoding, and apps

Funnily enough, the "ANSI" versions of Win32 functions are no longer considered a legacy thing, now that the OS offers UTF-8 as the supported encoding, and apps can explicitly request it (regardless of non-Unicode codepage setting) via manifest: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/globalizing/use-utf8-code-page https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global...