[ros-kernel] RE: Re: Unicode Library

[Steven E. <Ste...@kn...>]

As a short term dirty hack, couldnt you do both? Load them as a user space
dll and as a kernel mode driver?

-----Original Message-----
From: James Tabor
To: ros...@re...
Sent: 10/24/01 11:08 PM
Subject: [ros-kernel] Re:   Unicode Library

Eric Kohl wrote:
> 
> "Aliberti Emanuele" <ea...@io...> wrote:
> 
> >
> > >I finished porting unicode over to ROS. It's about 800 kbytes+
zipped.
> So,
> >
> > What is the "unicode library"?
> >
> I guess he is talking about the ansi/oem<->unicode conversion tables
from
> Wine.
> 
> I'm not sure if we should use it as a dll. The main problem is that
the
> conversion tables must be accessible from kernel *and* user mode.
Loading
> them as a kernel mode driver will not allow us to use non-default
code-page
> tables in user mode. Loading them as a dll does not allow us to use
them in
> kernel mode.
> 
> IIRC, WinNT loads the default code-page tables (oem-unicode,
ansi-unicode
> and unicode case-table) into a named memory section (use winobj to see
them)
> and maps a view into every process. The code-page tables can also be
loaded
> separately by MultiByteToWideChar() and WideCharToMultiByte(), at
least I
> think they do so.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Eric Kohl
> 

Hi Eric,
Okay, I believe the unicode goes into kernel32.dll as "codepage"'s. I'm
using
a Process Explorer and a Dll Explorer to verify this. Yeah!  What should
I
do? Write it into the kernel32.dll?
James

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