🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all, must have posted about this problem 5 times now...  Each time i get 
a bit closer to a solution but i'm still very confused.

I have a need to identify a MS / Windows generated dialog box in order to 
send it a message.  I'm enumerating all desktop windows to find it.  I 
cannot identify it by it's class id so i must identify it by it's caption. 
This is fine for English versions of Windows as i know the caption that i'm 
;looking for.  On other language versions, i must store the different 
captions in a resource and then provide some sort of look up based on the 
system locale. I  have coded this all and it all works, i have slowly 
compiled a list of all the alternative language version of the caption i am 
looking for.  However, i run into a problem when i hit non-Latin based 
systems i.e. Unicode.

On these systems, i can get the caption but obviously, it is in a Unicode 
format and i need to convert this, and my code, so i can deal with it.  If i 
use a resource editor, i can not see the Unicode values - they are just 
displayed are ??????.  My understanding from what has been written here, i 
need to convert the Unicode characters into there respective escape 
characters and then store the escape sequence in my resource file, preceding 
it with an L to indicate it is a wide / Unicode string i.e.

STRINGTABLE
{
 1, "ASCII caption"
 2, L"\x0421\x043f\x0440\x0430\x0432\x043a\x0430"
}

however, i don't seem to be able to do anything with this...  I can read it 
in using the LoadStringW api but i just get the escape value in my wchar_t 
array.  Even if i try to display them using MessageBoxW i still just get 
garbage displayed.

   wchar_t w[1000];
   int i = LoadStringW(HInstance, 2, w, 1000);
   MessageBoxW(NULL, w, L"test", MB_OK);

Displays -> 213f4030323a30

I'm obviously missing something critical here.

1) is there any simple way to convert to the escape character sequence 
without hunting through the Character Map utility.
2) am i storing the escape characters correctly in my resource file?
3) am i reading the resource string correctly?
4) is there some sort of conversion that i need to apply before i can use or 
compare the Unicode string that i have read in.
5) finally, everything that i read states that the VCL does not support 
Unicode.  In following with this, all the string properties of the vcl's are 
AnisStrings.  However, a Russian developer that i know can develop 
application in C++Builder that use and display Russian characters within his 
applications.  I have seen screen shots of his applications and you can 
clearly see the Russian characters in the caption of the form.  How is this 
possible if the vcl does not support Unicode.

Sorry for the essay, i really hope someone can give me the final pointers 
that i need

Many, many thanks in advance,

Mike