First - my apologies if this has been answered a hundred times over! D'oh!
But my search-fu apparently sucks, as I'm having no luck answering this basic question:
How are resources stored in the EXE/DLL? As UNICODE (UCS-2, Windows native internal character format), or as multibyte characters using the code-page of the resources block?
- How does one embed UNICODE strings into one's resources (.rc)?
- Can UNICODE (UCS-2) text be inserted into the language strings from within VS 2012?
- Is Windows still using UCS-2, or is it using UTF16 internally?
I'm just looking for general answers, or links to details, rather than a detailed how-to for putting a UNICODE string into an .rc string table. Thanks!
All resource strings in WIN32 are compiled as Unicode. See here for more info. The .rc script itself can be ANSI (using the local codepage) or UCS-2 with the appropriate BOM (reference).
If in doubt take a look at the hex. Here the start of notepad.exe's rc file, in UTF16:
0002ed60 01 00 53 00 74 00 72 00 69 00 6e 00 67 00 46 00 |..S.t.r.i.n.g.F.|
0002ed70 69 00 6c 00 65 00 49 00 6e 00 66 00 6f 00 00 00 |i.l.e.I.n.f.o...|
0002ed80 a6 02 00 00 01 00 30 00 34 00 30 00 39 00 30 00 |......0.4.0.9.0.|
0002ed90 34 00 42 00 30 00 00 00 4c 00 16 00 01 00 43 00 |4.B.0...L.....C.|
0002eda0 6f 00 6d 00 70 00 61 00 6e 00 79 00 4e 00 61 00 |o.m.p.a.n.y.N.a.|
0002edb0 6d 00 65 00 00 00 00 00 4d 00 69 00 63 00 72 00 |m.e.....M.i.c.r.|
0002edc0 6f 00 73 00 6f 00 66 00 74 00 20 00 43 00 6f 00 |o.s.o.f.t. .C.o.|
0002edd0 72 00 70 00 6f 00 72 00 61 00 74 00 69 00 6f 00 |r.p.o.r.a.t.i.o.|
