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How do I get the encoding that is used for the string returned by GetUserName from the win32 API? I’m using pywin32 and it returns an 8-bit string. On my German XP, this string is obviously encoded using Latin-1, but this might not be the case for other Windows installations.
I could use GetUserNameW, but I would have to wrap that myself using ctypes, which I’d like to avoid for now if there is a simpler solution.
You can call GetACP to find the current ANSI codepage, which is what non-Unicode APIs use. You can also use MultiByteToWideChar, and pass zero as the codepage (CP_ACP is defined as zero in the Windows headers) to convert a codepage string to Unicode.