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<p dir="auto">I'm wondering about the Chinese characters you mentioned.</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Those could be ANSI file paths being rendered as multi-byte streams; forcefully casting a <code class="notranslate">char *</code> to a wide string produces that effect:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/59004801/170811171-e4abae5f-6eac-43f7-8207-70f9f168a48a.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/59004801/170811171-e4abae5f-6eac-43f7-8207-70f9f168a48a.png" alt="CreateWindowW-ANSI-caption" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>
<p dir="auto"><a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/ShoresOfNowhere/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/ShoresOfNowhere">@ShoresOfNowhere</a>, have you checked whether Unicode encoding has been <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/587680/where-can-i-find-34beta-use-unicode-utf-8-for-worl.html" rel="nofollow">activated</a> on your PC?</p>
<ol dir="auto">
<li>Press <kbd>⊞</kbd> (Windows key) + <kbd>R</kbd></li>
<li>Enter <code class="notranslate">intl.cpl</code></li>
<li>Click the "Administrative" tab</li>
<li>Click "Change system locale..."</li>
<li>Look for "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support"</li>
</ol>
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