Oh, that's somewhat reassuring. I'll surely benefit from it in 10 years time. :/

hoov · on Oct 6, 2012

I'm not sure that I know what you mean. These functions aren't obscure and have been around for quite a while. For example: CreateFileW [1]. It's just good hygiene to use the Unicode variants and normalize to UNC where appropriate. This has been the case for years.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...

TazeTSchnitzel · on Oct 6, 2012

I mean that to maintain compatibility with legacy stuff I expect I won't be able to take advantage of it for quite a while.