programs/regsvr32: Output strings as WCHAR to support non-ascii characters

Bruno Jesus 00cpxxx at gmail.com
Tue May 26 09:38:09 CDT 2015


On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Hugh McMaster
<hugh.mcmaster at outlook.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 2015 12:06:43 -0300, Bruno Jesus wrote:
>> Fixes https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38638
>
> Hi Bruno,

Hi =)

> Your patch had the unfortunate side-effect of breaking output for almost all
> resource strings used in regsvr32. The problem is that the names of DLLs and
> input commands are still in ASCII.

I have no idea what you are talking about, I thought it would be an
easy bug to fix in my coffee time, but obviously it's something much
more complex than I could expect.

> Fixing the issue requires more work, as regsvr32 needs to be converted to
> Unicode first.
>
> I wrote patches to do that last year, but Alexandre felt they weren't
> needed. He said something like, "If it isn't broken, don't fix it". But now
> there is a problem, as translations are broken.
>
> I've rebased the patches against the latest commit base and uploaded them to
> my Dropbox account. [1]
>
> Feel free to use them. Or, if you like, I'll resend them to wine-patches.

We do have a real bug now, so I think the sane thing to do is for you
to resend your patches.

> --
> Hugh McMaster
>
> [1]
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7j8wh9n0n09znk5/AADz3Fa3oEmtRUhqVG-Kq0kIa?dl=0

Best wishes,
Bruno



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