Patch: New version of "UTF-16 to 'Win32 locale' conversions" and filenames (replacing convertion tables with Win32 API calls)

[Mohan Embar]

Hi João,

>>- What are your future plans with this? In particular, do you plan to
>>  submit a patch against 3.4?

>It is easy to submit a temporary patch against 3.4. But that would only 
>be useful to the comunity if someone would provide binaries that would 
>use it...

>>- Do you have any testcases?
>I don't have a specific one at the moment. But it is easy to propose one 
>(or more, if necessary).

If you post a patch for 3.4 and a testcase, I will put out a binary
on my website which incorporates this patch, even if the patch might
not make it to the mainline. I agree that a more generic solution is
needed for the mainline, but this will help a lot of MinGW people in
the meantime.

I'd be interested in initially exploring a solution which invokes the
W file functions on WinNT and the A file functions on Win9x. Yes, I know that this
should be generalized to non-Win32 and also to non file-specific functions,
but I know myself and if I don't start small, I won't do it at all.
Do you want to do this investigation? If not, would you have any objections
to my looking into it (time permitting)?

Thanks for working on this.

-- Mohan
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