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What does the SEE_MASK_UNICODE flag in ShellExecuteEx actually do?

February 27, 2014 Feb 27, 2014 02/27/14

Raymond Chen

Somebody with a rude name wonders what the flag does. It does nothing. The flag was introduced when porting the Windows 95 shell to Windows NT. It happened further back in history than I have permission to access the Windows source code history database, but I can guess how it got introduced. One of the things that the porting ...