CODEWITHSUNDEEP
winapivisual-c++
Nusrat Nuriyev
Nusrat Nuriyev

Reputation: 1174

SHGetFolderPath

This code works for windows 7 but doesn't work for windows XP (outputs only part of startup folder path)

#include <iostream>
#include <shlobj.h>

using namespace std;
int main()
{
    wchar_t startupFolder[1024];
    HRESULT hr = SHGetFolderPath(0, CSIDL_STARTUP, 0, 0, startupFolder);
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
        wcout << L"Startup folder = " << startupFolder << endl;
    else
        cout << "Error when getting startup folder\n";
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

output is: Startup folder = C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\ <- cursor is here. Newline is not provided. Also I have russian window xp. I think this is unicode issue.

when I use wprintf I got: C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\???????? .....

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3280

Answers (1)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 612964

The problem is that the font that your XP console uses does not contain glyphs for the Russian characters you are trying to output. The fonts that Windows 7 ships with and uses by default in its console do have a much broader coverage of Unicode code points. You'll need to configure your console to use a font that contains the glyphs you want.

Upvotes: 3

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