Microsoft has a white paper on writing a Unicode app for all platforms, see
the articles section on http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/ for details.
Note that applications such as Word, Excel, and Access in Office 2000 use
such a model.
michka
a new book on internationalization in VB at
http://www.i18nWithVB.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Marius Garshol" <larsga@garshol.priv.no>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:53 AM
Subject: A binary that runs on Win9X and WinNT
>
> Nearly all functions in the Win32 API that use strings have
> wide-string and 8-bit-string versions, but hardly any of the
> wide-string versions are implemented on Win9X.
>
> When a program uses UTF-16 internally for all text and makes heavy use
> of the Win32 API, how can one make a single binary run on both Win9X
> and WinNT?
>
> We have considered implementing compatibility versions of the
> wide-string functions that basically map to code-paged text, but this
> seems like an awful lot of work and in any case it seems basically
> incredible that nobody has done this before.
>
> What is the usual approach to this problem?
>
> --Lars M.
>
>
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