Re: [Mingw-users] Literals in exe file

[Douglas G. D. <dan...@gr...>]

In the language I use (Component Pascal)
the CHAR is 16 bits.  If one wants only 8 bits then
one must specify SHORTCHAR.  Very easy.


Manuel Martín wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> Because of this is a world (software) that is quickly changing, I 
> believe some "utopia" may come true. With so many idioms, Unicode is a 
> must. I believe the future is UTF-8. Also, time to time, I share some 
> code. UTF-8 makes it ease to share. Everything in UTF-8 is my utopia.
> That's why I write my code in that encoding.
> By now, MSWindows uses UTF-16 :(
>
> I must confess all of this began when I updated from wxWidgets 2.8 to 
> 2.9. The main difference between them is that internally only Unicode 
> strings are used. When I have re-read its new doc's, now I find it's 
> clearly advised _not_ to use sources with encoding different from the 
> current locale encoding.
>
> wx_2.8 worked something like this:
> //test encoding
> #define _UNICODE
> #include <windows.h>
> #include <tchar.h>
> int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
>                       LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
> {
>    ::MessageBoxW(NULL, _T("Adiós"), L"MyTextBox", MB_OK);
>    return 0;
> }
>
> This way, literals in .exe are wchar_t, I mean, two-bytes encoded, UTF-16.
> But in wx 2.9 things have changed.
>
> Now I must seat down and think about changing all my literals to wide 
> strings, change them to UTF-7 and make use of catalog .mo files even for 
> my own language (Spanish), or figure out a hack that allows me continue 
> writing in "good and readable Spanish", not L"Adi\xf3s".
>
> Thanks
> Manolo
>
>
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