Oh, come on, it was just a few more lines of code. In fact, I was happy with the code as it standed (that's no surprise, as I wrote it :)). I think we should just revert to it, and accept changes only with supporting tests. At the time that Aric submitted the patch, I was rather unhappy with it, but he claimed he performed extensive tests that proved that behaviour. He should have submitted them as part of the test suite.
As i understand it, the old Listview code was assuming that LVN_GETDISPINFOW is never used and tried to convince apps with the "A" version of the Message..
This leads to problems with Braindamaged_Apps(TM) wich handle only the Unicode Message.
(Tested App was "Explorer")
