As of r8489 , OpenMPT now builds with UNICODE. It has not yet been tested and there are certainly still bugs that the compiler cannot catch.

So far, UNICODE builds seem to be running fine. I suggest to enable UNICODE by default very soon. We might even go as far as enabling it for 1.27.01.00, but that remains to be seen.

I also tend to do Unicode builds for 1.27.01.00. The sooner we do that, the sooner we can start to remove all kinds of custom Unicode extensions to MFC and the Path-in-CString hacks (in this case, we can start doing that in 1.28.00.00).

Longer term, I'd like to see all explicit WinAPI Ansi/Unicode calls be removed (i.e. downgrading a possible Ansi build to strictly only support ANSI locale strings again). I do not think anything would be gained from breaking ANSI builds (at least as long as Microsoft still supports them in the SDK).

OpenMPT 1.27.00.54 r8518 now is Unicode by default.