Re: [ANN] Lua 5.1.2-rc3 now available

["Wim Couwenberg" <wim.couwenberg@...>]

> As said before the A/W variants of the win32 api exist
> for a long time (win95, maybe even before) and are very consistent
> (afaik all API that deal with strings have both variants available).

In the header files maybe, but not in the actual system dll's.
Windows 9x and ME only provide the *A versions.  (A separate "unicode
layer" library must be installed to support the *W versions on those
platforms.)  Windows 3.x only supports the base names (no A or W
extension) for the 8-bit Windows code page versions.

So #undef UNICODE in loadlib.c should solve the problem on all Windows
platforms?

(Side note: Actually, MSDN states

 "In the few places where an application must work with 8-bit character data,
  it can make explicit use of the functions for Windows code pages."

(Taken from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/unicode_8zzn.asp)

This suggests to explicitly use the *A functions, but that doesn't
seem to take Win 3.x into account any more.)

--
Wim