Re: Windows XP support
Jesse Palser <[email protected]>
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Windows XP is dead. If saying the above makes me a Troll, then I am hiding in my cave cooking frogs. JeZxLee On 08/17/2016 02:50 PM, BenoitRen wrote: > > > > > > > > Ryan C. Gordon wrote: > NT-based OSes like Windows XP had guaranteed Unicode support, which > meant we didn't need two codepaths through everything or any > understanding of what a "codepage" is, which simplifies our work > immensely > > > Every time Win9x support is dropped, this is one of the reasons > mentioned. It's as if open source developers are parroting it from > each other. I don't buy it, because SDL wouldn't be the first project > to need Unicode support across Win9x and WinNT. Mozilla has done it > for ages in their software, a Unicode layer library by Microsoft > exists, and an open-source variant of said library exists as well. > That's several compatibility layers you can reuse in one way or > another. Yet people act like those don't exist. > > > _______________________________________________ > SDL mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org _______________________________________________ SDL mailing list [email protected] http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org