String types issue

[thetrik]

It should accept an UTF-8 string. It accepts an ANSI text right now and we can't control conversion.
Solution:
Change all the LPSTR parameters to void* or it's better to update all the functions with the BSTR parameters

[wqweto]

I made some effort for params named utf8 + something to tag these As Long, the rest char * params are currently LPSTR which might be a problem.

UTF8<->BSTR will need some manual conversion helpers anyway. How do you plan to handle UTF-8 strings?

[thetrik]

How do you plan to handle UTF-8 strings?

I plan to modify all the public functions that accepts the strings and insert the BSTR->UTF8 converter inside each procedure. In that case we'll need to change all the prototypes to BSTR/LPWSTR.

[wqweto]

That IMO would be the most convenient approach. Basicly LPSTR params get the BSTR->ANSI treatment by the compiler and although invisible the string conversion overhead is still there.

Note that some strings are probably in/out params i.e. will need both BSTR->UTF-8 and UTF-8->BSTR on retval.