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Re: Experimental UNICODE-only MinGW Build


Hi,

Mohan Embar wrote:
- aesthetic beauty. For me, having the entire Win32 piece entirely
  in UNICODE is infinitely more beautiful than translating from
  UNICODE to ANSI, then from ANSI to UNICODE via the Windows A functions

This is more than aesthetics: Java likes Unicode and I like that approach more than making so many conversions.



- the accelerated marginalization of Win9X, which I think benefits all humankind. (I hope I don't start a flame war here.)



Win9x is the worst OS around, but just look at http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp and see how widespread it is. A programmer should support the OSes used by his intended audience, and a compiler should allow him to achieve this result.


Luciano


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