Let's schedule WinAPI ASCII functions for deprecation!

[Stewart Gordon]

On 22/05/2012 19:24, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
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>> * in D it's too easy to make a mistake by passing UTF-8 string pointer
>> to such function

That's just as easy in almost any language.  It's part of why so many websites have 
character encoding bugs.

<snip>
> And last but not least:
> - *W were supported on Win98+ Second Edition with official addon - Unicode Layer for
> Windows ;)
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I've heard of MS Layer for Unicode - don't know if that's what you meant or you're talking 
about something else.  From what I recall reading, MSLU had the problem that EXEs have to 
be explicitly built to depend on it.  So a typical app targeted at Win2000 and above 
wouldn't work with it, and you can't (at least easily) make an app detect whether Unicode 
is available and use it if it's there.

Stewart.