Re: [ANN] Winapi - a minimal but useful Windows API binding

[Tom N Harris <telliamed@...>]

On 06/09/2011 09:16 AM, steve donovan wrote:
> Ah, but any plain ASCII is a degenerate (and valid) kind of UTF-8, so
> I have the old problem of how to decide:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1031645/how-to-detect-utf-8-in-plain-c
>
> Quite apart from the 'plain C' part, the question in my mind is how to
> decide when to use the current locate in the MultiByteToUnicode
> conversion functions.

Handle it like SciTE, perhaps. Lua can set the encoding for its strings 
that will be used by all the functions. The default is UTF-8 (though I 
imagine some users would benefit from CP_ACP). If you need to handle a 
multi-byte string, do 'winapi.setcodepage(1251)'. And if you support 
UCS-2 then strings can be passed to and from Windows without conversion.

Just please don't use the BOM.

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- tom
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