Hey, Ron. I recently learned about a relatively new Windows feature to set 
the "Active Code Page" for processes to UTF-8 when they're started, which 
causes most ANSI Win32 encode Unicode strings as UTF-8, notably including 
GetCommandLineA() and CreateFileA(). Since every Windows C and C++ runtime 
hooks up the to the ANSI API, this means C and C++ programs are upgraded 
to support Unicode the same way they do on every other platform, and 
Windows doesn't require so much special handling. They get UTF-8-encoded 
arguments and can access Unicode paths via UTF-8. Even busybox-w32 can 
take advantage of this, at least to some extent.

In case you're interested, I elaborated on it in this issue:
https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit/issues/15

Unfortunately, this does not cover ReadConsoleA() nor ReadFile() on a 
console.

Chris,

Thanks for the info.  I'll add it my my list of things to think about.

Cheers,

Ron