The Old New Thing

What is the deal with the ES_OEMCONVERT flag?

July 19, 2005 Jul 19, 2005 07/19/05

Raymond Chen

The edit control style is a holdover from 16-bit Windows. This ancient MSDN article from the Windows 3.1 SDK describes the flag thus: ES_OEMCONVERT causes text entered into the edit control to be converted from ANSI to OEM and then back to ANSI. This ensures proper character conversion when the application calls the AnsiToOem function to ...