Let's schedule WinAPI ASCII functions for deprecation!

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 18:39:46 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>
>>> P.S.
>>> Let's finally solve encoding problems that should be solved 
>>> 10 years
>>> ago! By the way, Git+TurtoiseGit still has encoding problems 
>>> on Windows
>>> and it is awful (see its changelog).
>>>
>
>
> forgot to mention that my GSOC project has support for legacy 
> encodings as it's secondary goal. Check out:
>
> TODOs, synopsis & status:
> https://github.com/blackwhale/phobos/wiki/GSOC-Unicode-support/tree/gsoc-uni
>
> Original proposal:
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/dolsh/20002#

Dmitry, your project looks really cool.

As for the topic, I would vote for that, too, but don't have 
enough knowledge to understand all possible consequences...