I want WcaLog to work even when it's used in environments where multiple
languages are used. The issue with Wcalog today is that Unicode strings do
not always output correctly even when using the Unicode format parameter
"%ls". The use case is logging cyrillic text while the default code page is
set to Windows-1252. The output is an empty string.
--code snippet--
WcaLog(LOGMSG_STANDARD, "Wide Char parameter %ls", "Это проверка");
WcaLog(LOGMSG_STANDARD, "Wide Char parameter %S", "Это проверка");
WcaLog(LOGMSG_STANDARD, "Wide Char cast to CStringA %s", CStringA("Это
проверка"));
--- output from code snippet ---
: Wide Char parameter
: Wide Char parameter
: Wide Char cast to CStringA ??? ????????
On Nov 25, 2013 11:13 AM, "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> wrote:
> What exactly do you want to change? The WcaLog already supports passing
> Unicode data to the function, it's just the format string that is ANSI. For
> example: WcaLog(LOGMSG_STANDARD, "This is a Unicode string: %ls", wzData);
> should work just fine.
>
> We definitely don't want to change WcaLog to force using a Unicode string.
> That would just bloat all uses of WcaLog unnecessarily since Unicode
> strings take twice as much string as ANSI strings (and we have lots of log
> strings).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Neuse [mailto:kne...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:17 AM
> To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-devs] Unicode support for WcaLog
>
> I would like to re-write the WcaLog method and methods that depend on
> WcaLog in order to support unicode strings. Microsoft has deprecated
> multi-byte char support for their MFC library and now requires being built
> with unicode support in Visual Studio 2013. If you want to use MFC in
> custom actions it creates a lot of head aches to log the strings because
> now you have to convert unicode strings to Ansi strings. This will result
> in loss of data if you write text outside of the default code page selected
> in the OS. Every application today should support unicode strings.
>
> I would like to get the okay before making the changes.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
>
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