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

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 04:19:19PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> > 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.

        But the MultiByteToWideChar/WideCharToMultiByte functions convert 
to and from Windows "wide" characters, aka 16-bit fixed width characters 
(UCS2-encoded Unicode, IIRC). UTF8 is a variable-width encoding, which the 
Win32 API does not support, as far as I know. So we have to use 
libiconv; fortunately it compiles without any problems on Windows systems, 
and the same guy that ported the GIMP to Windows makes DLLs available.

        Ben
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