How do you properly use WideCharToMultiByte

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Published on 2008-10-19T03:33:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 1:03 UTC
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I've read the documentation here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776420(VS.85).aspx

I'm stuck on this parameter:

lpMultiByteStr [out] Pointer to a buffer that receives the converted string.

I'm not quite sure how to properly initialize the variable and feed it into the function

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