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Re: Patch for Review: Replace "Unicode to UTF8 conversions" with "Unicode to 'Win32 locale' conversions" when sending/receiving file names to/from Win32 API.
- From: Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>
- To: tromey at redhat dot com, João Garcia <jgarcia at uk2 dot net>, gnustuff at thisiscool dot com
- Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, rmathew at hotmail dot com
- Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:11:16 -0500
- Subject: Re: Patch for Review: Replace "Unicode to UTF8 conversions" with "Unicode to 'Win32 locale' conversions" when sending/receiving file names to/from Win32 API.
- Reply-to: gnustuff at thisiscool dot com
Hi People,
>>That is the reason why MS has released this thing:
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mslu/winprog/microsoft_layer_for_unicode_on_windows_95_98_me_systems.asp
>>
>>But I don't think this is a good solution for libgcj... It would have to
>>be linked to libgcj (with probable licensing issues...).
>
>My knee-jerk reaction would be to give the Microsoft Win9X Unicode wrapper
>a second look:
P.S. OpenOffice uses unicows, so they apparently have worked through
these licensing issues.
http://porting.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=116287&listName=dev
-- Mohan
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