GetProfileString does not work with unicode?

yeah, great post. This is really a lot of help. Thanks Paul.

Daverms wrote:
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When I tried to save the ini file using ANSI,

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> I think you should save your ini file in ASCII format.

doesn't matter, the farsi will get garbaged with either encoding (or any that's
not unicode). you can't use cf's ini functions like resource bundles.

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When I tried to save the ini file using ANSI,

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I think you should save your ini file in ASCII format.

dongzky wrote:
> I tried using GetProfileString from an ini file that is saved using unicode.

and now you know it doesn't work....use resource bundles.

> My page is already in UTF-8 format. However, the function just returns empty
> string. When I tried to save the ini file using ANSI, the characters(which is
> Farsi) returned are just garbages. And when it is saved as unicode, it just
> returns an empty value. Any reasons why?

why when you tried to save unicode as ANSI the data got garbaged? doesn't that
question already explain why your data got garbaged?

use resource bundles.