From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This is, e.g., the way Windows NT works: Unicode is used to handle text in
> the OS core, but it is mapped to/from "code pages" as soon as it has to
> become visible to the user.
Well, not exactly though. NT works best when you use Unicode everywhere,
both high and low level. For backwards compatibility they provide a second
set of APIs that does mapping everywhere, but it is mapped way down at the
API level, using these back. compat APIs.
It does make you want to come up with another set of terms other than "high"
and "low" since implying that the non-Unicode way is "high" almost seems
wrong! NT is definitely at its best when use Unicode at all levels.
Especially in places like Farsi which have no code page that can be used for
all characters!
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
