[Freeciv-Dev] Re: GTK+ 2.0 client port

[Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 04:19:19PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
[snip]
>  > This is what MSDN says
>  > 
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/sysinfo_4k55.asp):
>  > Windows 95/98/Me: GetWindowsDirectoryW is supported by the Microsoft
>  > Layer for Unicode. To use this, you must add certain files to your
>  > application, as outlined in Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows
>  > 95/98/Me Systems
> But I guess the license of that Layer for Unicode is not GPL
> compatible...
> I have not found the source of it.
Hmm... I thought that are only some dlls the user needs to replace.
I guess you don't want to maintain a different code base for Win9x and
WinNT/2000/XP? We wouldn't need to make our own Layer for Unicode for
the funktion we need. It's a stupid work but shouldn't be so
problematic.

>  > > But at least we can use libiconv to convert the stuff to the codepage
>  > > windows uses or tell gettext to do that automatically. 
>  > Why? Windows has it's native function (again from MSDN):
>  > STRCONV( ) Function
>  > Converts character expressions between single-byte, double-byte,
>  > UNICODE, and locale-specific representations.
>  > 
>  > See
>  > 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fox7help/html/lngstrconvlp_rp.asp
> 
> I think that's a function from Fox and not from the windows api.
Duh, i should read more carefully.

> I cannot find its prototype in the windows api headers.
> The only conversion function I know is MultiByteToWideChar (which can
> convert from unicode).
and WideCharToMultiByte to do the conversion in the other direction.

> But I don't see how that can handle UTF-8 on all win32 versions.
Doing wrapper functions (the "Layer for Unicode") for the _W funktions that 
do the MultiByteToWideChar/WideCharToMultiByte voodoo magic on the
wchar_t strings and call the native _A functions.

bye
        michael
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