Well, if I could use UTF-8 with CreateFileA() et. al. and never have to use wchar_t again, that would just be like Christmas. I don&#x27;t know whether this survey is for blanket win32 UTF-8 compatibility or whether this just means making the admittedly hugely improved cmd.exe work with UTF-8 command parsing, but anything that gives us better UTF-8 support is a step in the right direction.