minwin unicode

[Chris Miller]

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:09:41 -0500, Walter Bright  
<newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 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.

I meant to say 98 and ME, and I agree that how std.file does it is better,  
it's how I usually do it, e.g. in DFL. However, if a library has less  
interest in supporting win9x/ME, and more interest in simplifying unicode,  
it may be easier to just use MSLU, even though I personally probably still  
wouldn't, but it's still an option.