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I have a custom file which stores a list of German umlauts ("ä" "ö" ) My program needs to read these letters and print an ascii value.

I have tried this 

key = (WORD) VkKeyScanEx((TCHAR) szLetterName[0], ::GetKeyboardLayout(0));

This piece of code always returns 65535 for all the german letters but gives a proper value for English Alphabets.

Any idea why this issue is coming. Any suggestions to fix this issue ??

hivert
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Rajasekhar
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    Ugh, no, you are reading a text file. Not a keyboard. If you are lucky, this file is encoded with one of the Unicode encodings, like utf-8. And has a BOM that indicates which encoding is used. Unicode is not something that the C++ standard tries to tackle, you need a library. – Hans Passant Feb 03 '14 at 13:56

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There is no ASCII values for those character (see eg the ASCII table in http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Standard_Code_for_Information_Interchange). Therefore you must use a different encoding (latin/UTF). Note that some of these encoding use multi-byte characters.

hivert
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