[Bug 14627] regedit broken due to locale settings

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14627

Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #30 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at codeweavers.com> 2011-03-09 06:52:35 CST ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> Somebody seems to have a strange definition of "fixed" - a TEST-REQUEST or a
> WONTFIX (if really nothing can be done) I'd agree with, but as long as it's
> broken, it's not FIXED.

Reading an original report I believe that this bug is actually invalid.

> What I was trying to say in comment 26 was:
> as you well know Windows sucks at multiple locale handling (even AppLocale
> doesn't help that much, in some cases - not at all). Also, REGEDIT4 are strings
> in locale-dependent encoding. So, should wine's regedit continue to be broken
> and export bogus values in such case, or should it at least pop up a dialog,
> saying "Keys you've selected can't be exported correctly in this locale. Do you
> want to continue anyway or export to 'REGEDIT 5' ?".

If Windows regedit doesn't do that - Wine implementation shouldn't do that
either.

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