Use of the L prefix for wide strings in resource files

[Alexandre Julliard]

Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Yaron just made me aware of something he and I discussed briefly a few
> weeks ago.
>
> The shlwapi resource files uses the following:
>
>  PUSHBUTTON L"&OK", IDOK, 105, 40, 50, 14, WS_GROUP | WS_TABSTOP
>  PUSHBUTTON L"&Cancel", IDCANCEL, 160, 40, 50, 14, WS_GROUP | WS_TABSTOP
>  PUSHBUTTON L"&Yes", IDYES, 105, 40, 50, 14, WS_GROUP | WS_TABSTOP
>  PUSHBUTTON L"&No", IDNO, 160, 40, 50, 14, WS_GROUP | WS_TABSTOP
>
> There doesn't seem to be an issue with most of the languages as our
> resource compiler seem to do things just right.
>
> I did however see strangeness for some languages and also the not yet
> submitted Hebrew translation (maybe more?):
>
> http://source.winehq.org/transl/resource.php?branch=master&lang=011%3A01&resfile=dlls%2Fshlwapi&type=5&id=4608
> http://source.winehq.org/transl/resource.php?branch=master&lang=022%3A01&resfile=dlls%2Fshlwapi&type=5&id=4608
>
> ResHacker shows the same strangeness so it appears not only to be the
> translation site.
>
> Any idea where to start looking?

L"" strings are simply expanded from 8-bit to 16-bit, so it's only
suitable for strings encoded in Latin-1. In fact the parser should
probably reject anything that doesn't fit in 7-bit ASCII.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org