phobos/tango on win32: please drop ANSI "support"

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Thu Feb 15 09:01:16 PST 2007


Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> unicode layer for Windows is not part of Win9x, it's a separate add-on. 
> This means that in order to use a D executable, the user would have to 
> find and install MSLU. This is unacceptable - I don't want to deal with 
> the constant "bug reports" about this.

Supporting 9x in general is a huge pain.  There are a lot of important 
library features that it doesn't provide.


Sean



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