Changing encoding property breaks code generating about wxformbuilder HOT 1 OPEN

The ANSI option is actually the encoding ISO 8859-1 also known as Latin-1. You receive empty files because your wxFB project files contain characters that can't be represented in this encoding and the wxWidgets string conversion functions return an empty string in that case.

There is not much you can do about it, either use only ISO 8859-1 characters (this is basically 7-Bit ASCII plus some european characters) or use the UTF-8 encoding. I don't know which Visual Studio version you are using, the oldest i can remember is Visual Studio 2015, and this version already supports the option /source-charset:utf-8. With this option you can correctly read UTF-8 source files without changing your execution charset, this way your application can still use your systems narrow charset, the compiler will translate the UTF-8 encoding to your used encoding, like GBK. This of course only works if the UTF-8 only contains characters of that charset.

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