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c++windowsunicodeencoding
Stephen Eckels
Stephen Eckels

Reputation: 479

GetWindowText Can't Handle TradeMark Symbol

HWND ForeWindow = GetForegroundWindow();
wchar_t WindowTxt[1024] = { L'\0' };
GetWindowTextW(ForeWindow, WindowTxt, 1024);
wprintf(L"%s\n", WindowTxt);
std::wstring Str(WindowTxt);
std::wcout << L"Wnd: " << Str << L"\n";

Using the above code to get the window of skype which is "Skype™" i get the output:

"Skype?"

(the wcout line fails to execute)

1) Why is the wide character version of GetWindowText unable to handle this character

2) Why does std::wstring fail to parse the wchar_t array and then print it to the console

Upvotes: 1

Views: 550

Answers (1)

Adrian McCarthy
Adrian McCarthy

Reputation: 47962

CMD consoles don't handle Unicode well. Send the output to a file and open it in and editor, and I suspect you'll get the actual character you expect.

Upvotes: 2

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