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

Lionello Lunesu lio at lunesu.remove.com
Thu Feb 15 02:46:34 PST 2007


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> 
>> kris wrote:
>>> Regarding Tango, it uses the WindowsA functions only if
>>> -verion=Win32SansUnicode is configured. This switch is for supporting
>>> certain older environments, but does /not/ imply that code-pages are
>>> supported in Tango. There has never been an intent to do so.
>> Then it's not actually supporting those older environments at all.
> 
> Would depend on the nature of said environments, no?

??

That would mean that a char[] in Tango is not always utf8 and could in 
fact be code-page specific encoding. This is quite nasty for somebody 
writing library functions in Tango.

L.



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