SHGetFolderPath returns path with question marks in it
- by Colen
Hi,
Our application calls ShGetFolderPath when it runs, to get the My Documents folder. This normally works great. However, for three users - ???????, Jörg and Jörgen (see if you can spot the pattern!) - the call returns some very strange results. For example, for ???????, the call returns:
c:\Users\???????\Documents
I assume there's some sort of character encoding shenanigan going on here, possibly related to Unicode, but I don't have any experience with that sort of thing. How can I get a useful path to the folder (and other related folders) out of windows, without grovelling through registry keys for the information?
In an email to me, ??????? ("Dmitry"), told me his "my documents" folder was actually located here:
C:\Users\43D6~1\Documents
So I know there's a way to get a "normal" version of the path out of Windows, I just don't know what it is.
Background: Our application is not unicode-aware, and uses standard "char *" strings. How can we get the "normal" path? I'm not opposed to calling the "unicode" version of the function, then converting it to "normal" text, if that's possible. Converting the application entirely to use unicode is not an option here (we don't have the time).
Thanks.
