WritePreferenceString with "├" Problem

[PeDe]

PB v6.12 x86/x64/Asm/C, Windows 7 x64

Saving the special character "├" does not work correctly.
It works correctly with Debian 12 and PB v6.12 x64.
The error was discovered from AZJIO here in this thread:
viewtopic.php?p=628382#p628382

Could it be that the character is outside the valid Unicode range? I am not familiar with it.

Peter

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CreatePreferences(GetTemporaryDirectory()+"Preferences.ini")

PreferenceGroup("Test 1")
WritePreferenceString(#DOUBLEQUOTE$ + "●" + #DOUBLEQUOTE$, "Test 1")
WritePreferenceString(#DOUBLEQUOTE$ + "┌" + #DOUBLEQUOTE$, "Test 2")
WritePreferenceString(#DOUBLEQUOTE$ + "└" + #DOUBLEQUOTE$, "Test 3")
WritePreferenceString(#DOUBLEQUOTE$ + "├" + #DOUBLEQUOTE$, "Test 4")
PreferenceComment("")

Test$ = "├"
PreferenceGroup("Test 2")
WritePreferenceString(Test$, "Test 1")
WritePreferenceString("●", "Test 2")
WritePreferenceString("┌", "Test 3")
WritePreferenceString("└", "Test 4")
PreferenceComment("")

ClosePreferences()

Saved Preference.ini:

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[Test 1]
"●" = Test 1
"├" = Test 4
; 
"└" = Test 3
[Test 2]
┌ = Test 3
● = Test 2
└ = Test 4
; 

[benubi]

No, if it gets rendered everywhere as a glyph it must be in the range. That glitch is weird.
But there's probably nothing to worry about

[normeus]

It is an ASCII encoding problem and it is not the character you think:

the first byte of the character is an ascii Formfeed, it might be an editor problem and not a compiler problem.

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unicode$="┌"
ShowMemoryViewer(@unicode$,8)
; this is the problem 
WritePreferenceString(#DOUBLEQUOTE$ + "┌" + #DOUBLEQUOTE$, "Test 2")

For a real Halloween scare, try running this code: ( notice the space in " ┌")

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CreatePreferences(GetTemporaryDirectory()+"Preferences.ini")

Debug Asc( "┌")
unicode$="┌"
ShowMemoryViewer(@unicode$,8)
WritePreferenceString(" ┌", "Test 3")

ClosePreferences()

Norm.