The MS Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/ME Systems
Michael Kaplan - Trigeminal Software, Inc. & Cathy Wissink - Microsoft Corporation
Intended Audience: |
Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts |
Session Level: |
Intermediate |
The Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/ME Systems" (MSLU for
short) is a programmatic layer that gives you a way to write a single
Unicode binary that can run on all 32-bit Windows platforms. This integral
part of the Platform SDK can allow you to fully leverage Unicode on Windows
2000 and XP, rather than writing an "ANSI" application that cannot even
support every language, let alone multiple languages.
This presentation will aim to explain why Microsoft considers Unicode to be
so important strategically and how MSLU fits into that strategy. It will
discuss how the component works, ways to override its behavior, and where to
go for more information. It will also show some sample integrations of
existing apps and demo some actual external products that use MSLU to
provide their Unicode story. Finally, it will show the things that MSLU is
not and cannot really ever be, since it is based on the (non-Unicode) Win9x
platform. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of
Microsoft's position on Unicode in general, and how they have chosen to
specifically encourage adoption of the Unicode functionality in Windows.
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