Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Crash with Combobox GetLBText

[Jeremy W. <jez...@ho...>]

>This would lead to a more complex macro/function, but would, I think be 
>worth it.

[snip]

It would be a more complicated macro/function - but I agree with you, it 
would be worth it.

>This works nicely for the ANSI versions of the call, which return th ANSI 
>encoded string of bytes that is suitable for directly inserting into the 
>PV, but this doesn't address the Unicode issue at all, where the string 
>copied by CB_GETLBTEXT would have to be converted from UCS-2 to utf-8 and 
>then copied into the SV, setting the SVf_utf8 flag appropriately.

If we spend time on reworking some of the internals for Unicode is it worth 
us considering the implications of 64bit further down the road?

Cheers,

jez.