- Unicode

From: Treutwein Bernhard <"Treutwein>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:16:57 +0200

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> I guess that BB still uses A everywhere. If so the only way
> to enable Unicode is to recompile BB by using all W data
> types, function calls etc. (... and then hope that it doesn't
> break elsewhere).

right, I fear there is no way around recompilation, and
thorough checking the HostXyz modules. It may be feasible
to (auto?)-scan through the interfaces and replace:

<excerpts from WinApi.Mod>:

        PROCEDURE FormatMessage* ["FormatMessageA"] (dwFlags: SET; lpSource:
PtrVoid; dwMessageId: INTEGER; dwLanguageId: INTEGER; lpBuffer: PtrSTR;
nSize: INTEGER; VAR [nil] Arguments: PtrSTR): INTEGER;

by:

        PROCEDURE FormatMessage* ["FormatMessageW"] (dwFlags: SET; lpSource:
PtrVoid; dwMessageId: INTEGER; dwLanguageId: INTEGER; lpBuffer: PtrSTR;
nSize: INTEGER; VAR [nil] Arguments: PtrSTR): INTEGER;

This change will (almost shure) lead to an awful lot of problems,
since the parameters to these calls must be adjusted to contain
unicode strings and all these interface modules use dirty low level
stuff.

Moreover, this will break backward compatibility with Win9x ...

--
   Bernhard Treutwein
   Bernhard Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Behalf Of Hof, Philipp
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:21 PM
> To: BlackBox Mailing List
> Subject: [BlackBox] - AW: [BlackBox] - Pascal to Component 
> Pascal translator & Name Translation & Character Translation 
> to Unicode
> 
> 
> >I can't use Unicode in string constant (ARRAY OF CHAR)
> I haven't followed all the mails regarding this topic and 
> above all this is wild guess (without having verified the BB 
> source code):
> 
> Many Windows data types, APIs etc. exist twice with endings A 
> and W. E.g.: WINGDIAPI BOOL  WINAPI GetCharWidthA( IN HDC, IN 
> UINT, IN UINT, OUT LPINT); WINGDIAPI BOOL  WINAPI 
> GetCharWidthW( IN HDC, IN UINT, IN UINT, OUT LPINT);
> 
> where W is the Unicode version.
> 
> I guess that BB still uses A everywhere. If so the only way 
> to enable Unicode is to recompile BB by using all W data 
> types, function calls etc. (... and then hope that it doesn't 
> break elsewhere).
> 
> Philipp
> 
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