minwin unicode

Tomas Lindquist Olsen tomas at famolsen.dk
Sat Dec 2 21:09:45 PST 2006


Walter Bright 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 have committed the Unicode update for Windows to SVN :)
Thanx again for pointing out how it should be done!

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