Re: More on the ASCII/Unicode support

[Alexandre Julliard]

Patrik Stridvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Do you consider an Windows _application_ that can be compiled as both ASCII
> and Unicode as less maintainable?

Yes; it all looks very nice in theory, but when you try to deal with
real life problems, like file I/O for instance, this TCHAR magic is a
pain, and you end up with #ifdef UNICODE all over the place.

> > Embedded systems may want Unicode too (CE is mostly Unicode AFAIK).
> 
> Sure you can run Unicode only if you wish.

No; most typical apps need a mix of the two, because you want Unicode
when dealing with the user interface so that you can support multiple
languages, but you don't want to convert your whole app to use Unicode
internally where it's not necessary.

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Alexandre Julliard
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