Re: dealing with Unicode strings on MS-Windows?

"Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril" schrieb:
> does anybody know how MS-Windows works with Unicode strings? What encoding do they use? 
> UTF-8? UTF-16? xy?

UTF-16 probably. see below.

> Do they consistently use 16bit (C type "short") for one character?

yes. the winapi provides A (Ascii) and W (wide) pairs for all functions
dealing 
with strings. the "W" suffix version takes 16-bit chars, "A" 8-bit chars.

> Who has got some experience with Unicode and Common Lisp? how much headache is it 
> to deal with unicode, ASCII, xyz all in one?

Corman just strips the first 8-bits of each char for COM support (16-bit
widechars), 
so foreign chars > 65536 (mainly japanese) will be mapped to some ascii char.
ACL and LW probably do it right.

> If it matters, I'd be more interested in how MS-Windows NT or 2000 operate.
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