Then I'm + in favour! I'm all for UNICODE finally becoming the default for
things world-wide.
2010/2/15 Viktor Szakáts <harbour...@syenar.hu>
> Hi Smu,
>
> On 2010 Feb 15, at 21:20, smu johnson wrote:
>
> > Viktor,
> >
> > Does this mean that all the Extended Ascii chars from the DOS world will
> disappear and turn into their latin-1 / utf-8 equivalents?
>
> No, it's an internal change specific to Windows platform,
> and it means that Harbour core and contrib will use UNICODE
> ("WIDE") Windows API calls, as opposed to "ANSI" ones.
>
> It's only a difference in Harbour code interfaces with Windows.
>
> This may mean that on app level some things have to be tweaked
> to work in this case (*), but overall it makes things simpler
> to manage, and this change is transparent for the most part
> on the app level. We're in development phase, so any show
> stoppers that may happen to remain, can be fixed. We're using
> UNICODE with MSVC and WinCE since some time, so the situation
> is rather good.
>
> (*) The only such case that comes to mind is printing ASCII
> line drawing chars using hbwin GDI printing engine.
>
> Brgds,
> Viktor
>
>
> >
> > 2010/2/15 "網緹資訊•廖文勝(WenSheng)" <ss...@mail.zzz.com.tw>
> >
> > In Asia, we are very needed him.
> >
> > > +1 UNICODE mode for window build
> > > What steep for give harbour "full unicode support"?
> > >
> > > 2010/2/15 Viktor Szak嫢s <harbour...@syenar.hu>
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to gather opinions on switching default Harbour
> > > > Windows builds to UNICODE mode in next major release.
> > > >
> > > > Advantages:
> > > > - Runs more efficiently on NT-class OSes since
> > > > we're using native API instead of ANSI wrappers,
> > > > and the OS-level CP conversion is saved also.
> > > > - Harbour level CP configuration is much easier for GTs.
> > > > - Will run even more efficiently when implementing
> > > > native UNICODE support inside HVM.
> > > > - Some languages can only be supported in UNICODE mode.
> > > > - We're in sync with all Harbour Windows builds and
> > > > also with WinCE builds, which already have UNICODE
> > > > enabled.
> > > >
> > > > Disadvantage:
> > > > - Apps won't run on Win9x OSes anymore. Here there
> > > > exists a solution, unicows lib:
> > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688166.aspx
> > > >
> > > > Notes:
> > > > - UNICODE is already enabled by default for
> > > > MSVC 2005 and upper, and WinCE. MSVC 2008
> > > > and upper doesn't even support non-UNICODE
> > > > anymore.
> > > > - non-UNICODE can be enabled for custom Harbour
> > > > builds anytime using build-time option:
> > > > HB_BUILD_UNICODE=no.
> > > >
> > > > Opinions?
> > > >
> > > > Brgds,
> > > > Viktor
> > > >
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