[Bug 24369] New: UCS-4 trick not working with resource files

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24369

           Summary: UCS-4 trick not working with resource files
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Windows 98
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: carlo.bramix at libero.it


Created an attachment (id=30717)
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Resource file for testing

Here there is an extract of my email sent to wine-devel mailing list about this
problem:

==== CUT = CUT = CUT

Let's take for example this piece of code from richedit.h:

#if defined(__GNUC__)
# define RICHEDIT_CLASS20W (const WCHAR []){ 
'R','i','c','h','E','d','i','t','2','0','W',0 }
#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
# define RICHEDIT_CLASS20W      L"RichEdit20W"
#else
static const WCHAR RICHEDIT_CLASS20W[] = { 
'R','i','c','h','E','d','i','t','2','0','W',0 };
#endif

Because the famous UCS-4 "issue", the control name is splitted in its single
letters.
While this can work in almost all situations with C/C++ sources, it is
absolutely not possible to put a richedit control in RC files.
For example, if I put a Richedit control into a dialog box, it will crash since
the letter by letter format won't be recognized by the resource compiler.