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Re: Experimental UNICODE-only MinGW Build

From: Luciano Vernaschi <luciano at virgilio dot it>
To: gnustuff at thisiscool 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>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:03:19 +0100
Subject: Re: Experimental UNICODE-only MinGW Build
References: <OJ21SORNNHYSZXWSSM2W1MGVP1YONTP.3fbcf954@p733>

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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