On 22.05.2012 23:32, Martin Nowak wrote:
* it performs worse because Windows has to convert ASCII string to
UTF-16 first
Is that a fact?
P.S.
Let's finally solve encoding problems that should be solved 10 years
ago! By the way, Git+TurtoiseGit still has encoding problems on
Windows and it is awful (see its changelog).
Given that it only requires a 'w' suffix for literals it's a good choice.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7950271/windows-uses-utf-16-as-its-internal-encoding-what-exactly-does-this-mean
Second answer sheds some light on the topic.
From what I know of Windows NT, the kernel even doesn't use Z-strings
most of the time. All stuff that can be called syscalls use a variation
of L-strings for 16-bit width chars.
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Dmitry Olshansky
