On Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 15:58:53 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
It seems pretty wrong for the A versions to be the default
though...
For my money it's a plain bug in bindings :)
Still, even in C++ code, I've generally taken the approach of
using the W functions explicitly in order to avoid any
potential problems with A functions being called accidentally.
Regardless, the whole A vs W thing with Win32 is not exactly
one of its nicer features. :|
In C headers it's a backward compatibility for code written for
win9x. As such it doesn't make much sense for new code and
especially for D code. The mess is a price for thoughtless
copying.
