winefile: switch to UNICODE mode

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Jun 22 15:37:34 CDT 2005


Martin Fuchs <fuchs.martin at gmail.com> writes:

> Let me change the question: Why should one use Unicode on those
> systems at all? They don't support Unicode file systems - so there are
> no 16 bit file names to display.

No, but using Unicode doesn't hurt, and is easier than going through
the effort of not using it.

> 3.) Wine's TCHAR support is not complete. You didn't answer on this fact yet.
> This makes the proper implementation of TCHAR usage combined with Unix
> calls kind of ugly. So you don't like it.

You cannot combine TCHAR with Unix, because Unix doesn't use the same
size of wide character. There is no way this can be made to work with
the tchar.h macros.

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Alexandre Julliard
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