[PATCH] gdi32: Reformat some strings to improve readability

[Alexandre Julliard]

Henri Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 at 11:19, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>> Rather than converting everything over to u"", I'd prefer that we find
>> ways to use L"".
>>
>> For instance, I'm currently working on building more modules with
>> MSVCRT, and converting them to use wchar functions instead of
>> unicode.h. Such modules could be built with -fshort-wchar. Ultimately
>> this would hopefully cover a large fraction of the code base.
>>
> D3D code doesn't have a lot of UTF-16 string literals, so this is
> perhaps more curiosity than anything else, but other than legacy
> compiler support, are there any other advantages of L"" over u""? My
> impression was that -fshort-wchar was fairly hopeless as soon as you
> use any external API with wchar_t in it, including e.g. libstdc++.

I don't expect that we'll be using libstdc++ in Wine anytime soon.
And there are very few other wchar_t APIs that we would want to use,
that's too painful.

As far as porting code with Winelib, existing Windows code would already
be using L"" everywhere, so having a solution for that would be better
than requiring a massive search/replace.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org