On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Martin Duerst wrote: > Conversion of MSWindows to Unicode was/is slower than desirable, > but MS was not 'converted' to Unicode (like they were converted > to the Internet), they were participating from quite early on, > with the very clear aim of reducing overall costs.
MS is currently getting into the process of slowly phasing out the entire ugly Win32 API in favour of their new .NET platform, which is essentially the old Java vision, but source code language independent and with many of the things fixed that people didn't like about the Java view of the world (like the non-existance of unsigned integers). Actually surprisingly nice and well-done stuff. And the .NET platform is as far as I can tell free of any non-Unicode character string functions. While Win32 will for historic reasons never be 100% Unicode, .NET certainly will be. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
