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Re: Widechar file functions
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin at future dot shiny dot co dot il
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:14:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: Widechar file functions
- References: <20031017135628.GA19242@furr.shiny.co.il>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:56:28PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
>I assume the correct way is to load the relevant Widechar functions via
>GetProcAddress and use them if they exist AND a "Cygwin expects UTF-8
>char* in file functions" flag was turned on.
>This flag should be runtime rather than compile time, so that each
>application could define it for itself.
There is a lot more involved than that. Many C strings would need to be
changed to Unicode. This is a huge change.
>Are there any plans to make those changes in the near future?
No, there are no such plans.
cgf
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