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Re: Experimental UNICODE-only MinGW Build
- From: Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>
- To: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Cc: João Garcia <jgarcia at uk2 dot net>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Bryce McKinlay <bryce at mckinlay dot net dot nz>, tromey at redhat dot com, Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>, luciano at virgilio dot it
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:21:47 -0600
- Subject: Re: Experimental UNICODE-only MinGW Build
- Reply-to: gnustuff at thisiscool dot com
Hi Jeff,
>> During this experiment, I changed my mind about UNICOWS. My stance is that
>> making libgcj UNICODE-only and supporting WinNT / Win2K / WinXP elegantly
>> and out-of-the-box is more important than inconveniencing Win9X users. I am
>> also capitalizing on Bryce's post:
>
>I don't have much of an opinion on the matter, but short of satisfying
>everyone why not make win32 unicode a configure option, so those that need
>it can have it?
This hasn't been suggested already. I thought about this, but wanted to avoid
mucking around in configure.in too much so this thing had a half a chance of
going in this late in the game. I think it's a good idea, but, then again,
we'd have another target to test and maintain....
-- Mohan
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