> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 16:22:57 +0200 (CEST) > From: Marcel Schneider <[email protected]> > > I'm very puzzled about this being UTF-16 code units, as stated also in the > MSKLC Help. In the driver source kbd*****.c, each of those entities is > referred > to as WCHAR, which is meant to mean (^^) "UNICODE CHARACTER". Indeed we can > write 0x1234 for a given WCHAR in a driver source, but also 0x101234 for > another given WCHAR if that's its code point. Nowhere there is any UTF > appearing. Despite of having looked up the Unicode FAQs about Unicode > transformation formats, I'm unable to make the link.
The Windows WCHAR is a 16-bit data type. What Windows documentation calls "Unicode characters" are Unicode codepoints encoded in UTF-16.
