Only Unicode-mode client programs can communicate with the server using UTF-8 encoded data. To initialize a Unicode mode client program, use theusApiType field of the ESS_INIT_T structure passed to EssInit(). This field has two possible values: ESS_API_NONUNICODE and ESS_API_UTF8.
This API initialization function is the only place to specify the mode of an application program. This topic contains the following sections: