2008/1/27, Glenn Linderman: > I would hope (and I think it is your intention from things you've said > in the past) that a new code base would include support for Unicode > windows. While it may be needful to convert between UTF-8 and UTF-16 to > access the wide character Windows APIs, and that may not always be > particularly efficient, it is preferable to have the functionality at > the cost of efficiency. I chafe at the constraints of being unable to > support all languages. It seems that even Jan is not particularly > interested in supporting Unicode on Windows...
Unicode is very well supported on Windows via native UTF-8 support and the Unicode modules and encoding filters. It's just that the UTF-16 MS Wide API is not supported in almost no Win32 module. Only Win32::OLE has it. > of course, it seems that > even Microsoft isn't interested in supporting UTF-8 on Windows... so > since UTF-8 is the way Perl is, some efforts may be required, perhaps > even a few patches to Perl (at least Perl-IO), to get full Unicode > support on Windows (I'm thinking about the console here, in particular). Just encode every string from UTF-8 to UTF-16 and pass this to the relevant *W functions, instead of the *A functions This is a stupid piece of copy&paste xs work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/
