minwin unicode

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Sat Dec 2 17:09:41 PST 2006


Chris Miller wrote:
>> Do you care about Win95?  If so then I recall there are some 
>> limitations to using unicode there, and you need something called 
>> unicows.dll to make it work at all.  I think unicows only supports a 
>> subset of the win32 api.
>>
>> Personally I don't care about Win95, but apparently a lot of people 
>> still do.
>>
>> If you don't care about Win95, then I believe you're right that the -W 
>> functions are the way to go.
> 
> It also applies to Windows 95 and ME, which I believe still have a chunk 
> of users. MSLU is an option but is a dependency.

Don't use MSLU to support 95 and ME. Look into how std.file does it, 
that's the right way for D.



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