使用GetWindowTextW从编辑控件获取希伯来语文本

Question

I have a VisualStudio project set to "Use Multi-Byte Character Set. It's an older codebase and generally I've been able to get around ok using the "W" version of various functions. However I'm running into a problem trying to get a Hebrew string out of an edit control. No matter what I try I get question marks.

Eg

int textLen = GetWindowTextLengthW(chatBoxHwnd);
wchar_t* buffw = new wchar_t[textLen + 1];  
GetWindowTextW(chatBoxHwnd, buffw, textLen + 1);

But when I try to use buffw (such as displaying it with MessageBoxW) I still get question marks.

Answer 1

So the solution was to also use the Unicode version for creating the edit control itself ( CreateWindowExW vs CreateWindowEX) as well as the ancillary functions around that (SendMessageW, SetWindowLongPtrW, etc...) After that I was able to successfully use the above code to pull Hebrew (and other languages) from the edit box.

Special thanks to this post How to create a unicode window in a non-unicode application