after some eons holed up, here is a CxImage version working with unicode:
http://www.xdp.it/cgi-bin/dl7z.pl?cximage/cximage599c_full_unicode
(if don't know the "7z" format, you can find a decompression tool here: http://www.7-zip.org/ )
 
a big thank you goes to Eric Jesover, for his great job on the whole library.
 
The release is always "5.99c", the changes are addressed only for unicode, and to remove some compilation warning.
The package has been tested with VC6 and VS2005, and apart from the huge number of warnings for few deprecated functions, it compiles and run all the configurations (debug, release, unicode debug, unicode release / static link, dll link).
 
If you find that there are still problems with unicode, on this release, please post a message in the CxImage/Bugs forum.
If you have a positive feedback, please post it here.
 
This is a screenshot of the demo, opening a file with a Chinese name, and the text dialog with Japanese ideograms: