Microsoft Layer for Unicode (or MSLU) is a software library for Windows software developers to simplify creating Unicode-aware applications for Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Me. It is also known as UnicoWS (Unicode for Windows 95/98/Me Systems) or UNICOWS.DLL, or even "cows".
Microsoft describes it as providing "a layer over the Win32 API on Windows 95/98/ME so that you can write a single Unicode version of your application and have it run properly on all platforms." Previously, software developers had to either provide two separate versions of an application, or perform complex string translations and API decisions at runtime.
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