On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Jorge Lodos Vigil <lodos@segurmatica.cu> wrote:
... First of all, thank you for your work in the filesystem library.
You are welcome!
Apparently the new version have wchar_t internal representations for all Windows OSs. However, Windows 9x versions do not support wchar_t (at least natively). I'm not sure if dropping support for Windows 9x is desired, but it would certainly be a difference with previous versions.
Is there a real-life case to be made for supporting Windows 9X? Cygwin is also a concern because of lack of standard library wchar_t support. I'm trying to get more information from the Cygwin/gcc maintainers, but no response so far. I think a technical solution might be possible by supporting builds for Windows that use narrow characters and the narrow character API. But there would have to be reasonable (i.e. limited) expectations. Such a build wouldn't magically enable encodings that aren't supported by the operating system and/or file system in use.
In case you need any help with these platforms I'll be glad to do what I could.
I would need help with testing, at the least. --Beman