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Author	steve.dower
Recipients	eryksun, lemburg, miss-islington, paul.moore, sahsariga111, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2022-01-26.15:57:29
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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>> AFAIK, the Win32_OperatingSystem caption is always ASCII. > > I think I was wrong here. The "Caption" field is localized, so the wmic.exe OEM encoded output to a pipe isn't reliable. Correct. And while "Windows" itself is never translated, the caption may include terms that are translated (e.g., IIRC, the extra names for point-of-sales versions).

>> AFAIK, the Win32_OperatingSystem caption is always ASCII.
> 
> I think I was wrong here. The "Caption" field is localized, so the wmic.exe OEM encoded output to a pipe isn't reliable.

Correct. And while "Windows" itself is never translated, the caption may 
include terms that are translated (e.g., IIRC, the extra names for 
point-of-sales versions).

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Date	User	Action	Args
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