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Re: [PATCH] [MinGW] for Review: Make MinGW libgcj use UNICODE natively
- From: Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>
- To: GCJ Patches <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at mckinlay dot net dot nz>, tromey at redhat dot com, João Garcia <jgarcia at uk2 dot net>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>, luciano at virgilio dot it, mingw-dvlpr at lists dot sourceforge dot net
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 12:52:11 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MinGW] for Review: Make MinGW libgcj use UNICODE natively
- Reply-to: gnustuff at thisiscool dot com
Hi People,
>- with this patch, libunicows.a would be a required external
> library needed to build mingw-gcj. libunicows.a is open
> source and free (http://libunicows.sourceforge.net)
>
>- developers wanting to distribute applications which run on
> Win9X would need to distribute unicows.dll, available for
> download from Microsoft. This DLL need not be redistributed
> for WinNT / Win2K / WinXP.
Three strikes and I'm out. I've had enough people complain about
the licensing restrictions imposed by this patch on Win9X that
I'm rescinding it. I'm going to resubmit a patch with configure
options for UNICODE <-> ANSI <-> UNICODE, UNICODE with libunicows
and pure UNICODE without libunicows (which won't run on Win9X).
Even if this doesn't get into the FSF tree for this release, I'm
pretty sure the MinGW folks will accept it.
While you're waiting for the patch, everyone that has intimated
that I might have had my personal agenda more at heart than the
user community's wishes may now send me fan mail and tell me what
a wonderful person I am.
-- Mohan
http://www.thisiscool.com/
http://www.animalsong.org/