Re: [icu-support] CreateFileA vs CreateFile2 for UWP

[Ron R. <ro...@mi...>]

ICU for UWP is coming.  We have a working preview available, and are planning to port the update to ICU trunk sometime this month.


From: Markus Scherer [mailto:mar...@gm...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:31 AM
To: ICU support mailing list <icu...@li...>
Subject: Re: [icu-support] CreateFileA vs CreateFile2 for UWP

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Tim Uy <ti...@lo...<mailto:ti...@lo...>> wrote:
Has to be CreateFile2 for UWP, but CreateFile2 should provide the needed functionality for non-UWP. I'll experiment if no one else has.

There is a problem:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh449422.aspx

"Minimum supported client
Windows 8 [desktop apps | Windows Store apps]"

ICU still needs to run on Windows 7 for a few years. We are just now abandoning XP and Vista.

markus