I strongly believe that LoadLibraryW should be used for any Windows version that supports it.
The SQLite OS layer for Win32 shows how this can be done. It converts UTF-8 to wchar_t* before calling the appropriate function Windows ...W functions. The code is in the public domain. Here is the link to the current version: http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/37e1b92f0fa5edf1955bcd6b04d3e4d8be68ede2 Ralf On 23.05.2012 11:41, Daniel Veillard wrote: > C.f. the bug Fix windows unicode build > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638650 > > and the previous discussions here: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-February/msg00094.html > > now that the release is done, can we have a final decision on this. > As I understand it, LoadLibraryW takes a wchar_t* parameter, while > internally we are using only a char * (or xmlChar *) so it makes > no sense to try to call LoadLibraryW, and instead of using the > macro LoadLibrary which can only break build, calling LoadLibraryA > seems to be the simplest. > But I'm not a Windows user, and know close to nothing to the platform > so I suggest we reopen that debate, or just agree on fixing this. _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml