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Re: Widechar file functions


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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