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winapi - What is the difference between the `A` and `W` functions in the Win32 API?

What is the difference in calling the Win32 API function that have an A character appended to the end as opposed to the W character.

I know it means ASCII and WIDE CHARACTER or Unicode, but what is the difference in the output or the input?

For example, If I call GetDefaultCommConfigA, will it fill my COMMCONFIG structure with ASCII strings instead of WCHAR strings? (Or vice-versa for GetDefaultCommConfigW)

In other words, how do I know what Encoding the string is in, ASCII or UNICODE, it must be by the version of the function I call A or W? Correct?

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The A functions use Ansi (not ASCII) strings as input and output, and the W functions use Unicode string instead (UCS-2 on NT4 and earlier, UTF-16 on W2K and later). Refer to MSDN for more details.


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