Unicode, i18n support
Dimitrie O. Paun
dpaun at rogers.com
Sun Mar 31 22:27:16 CST 2002
On March 31, 2002 06:08 pm, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>
> Do you mean that all syscalls that accept filename as parameter, can
> handle UTF8 encoded file names? Starting from what version of kernel?
Yes. I guess pretty much any kernel. From the kernel perspective, it's a
zero-terminated strings of bytes. It's up to the userland to interpret it.
Right now it's interpreted as a code page encoding, but the plan going
forward (I believe) is to interpret it as UTF8.
> I'm afraid that will help to Linux only based installations of Wine, and
> in any case all functions in Wine implementing file APIs should internally
> use unicode.
I think most Unices should support it. But yeah, internally we use UTF16
throughout.
--
Dimi.
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