Re: [fltk.general] unicode and windows 98

[MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK)]

> I can just write own conversion, but then, on Win98, I should 
> send data to
> FLTK in utf-16 or extended ascii code page (windows-1250)?

This is fltk-2 you are using? 
I don't use fltk-2 that much myself, but it should work entirely in
UTF-8 internally.
Indeed, it may even have the support you need to "just work" in win98m
but I don't know for sure, maybe some of the fltk-2 team can chip in
here?


> But... if I send just encoded bytes, instead of UTF-8, will 
> that not full
> FLTK? Like, FLTK seems to count number of characters etc 
> assuming data is
> UTF-8, so if it something that looks like utf-8 but is 
> cp-1250 then fltk
> will incorrectly count number of glyphs and have trouble displaing...?

Yes, I suspect that you will need to convert any strings from win98 into
UTF-8 for fltk to use, but that may be done already in the fltk-2
codebase.

> Also, how to detect if Im on win98?

Oh, now you're asking... It's been a while...

I think you call GetVersionEx(..) and decode the returned structure,
looking at the platformID to discriminate between win9x and winNT series
variants. Googling for GetVersionEx ought to turn something up.

Do you have to support a lot of win98 users? That could get to be a real
problem...

Maybe you could detect that your app is running on win98 and just pop a
dialog saying "Please Upgrade!"   Well, OK, maybe not!



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