Re: [ANN] Winapi 2nd beta

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 13/06/2011 12.16, Dušan Majkić wrote:
> > This is the second beta release of winapi:  basic Windows bindings for Lua.
> > ..
> > By default it is CP_ACP, but you can set it explicitly to UTF-8.
>
> I think that all code pages should be killed in favor of utf-8.
> After all, it is the proven Unicode survivor of the Internet.

Oh yes! That would be really a dream, I agree. But, alas, there are 
legacy systems and legacy software. I still work mainly on WinXP 
machines (and also on old Win98 PCs sometimes), and there are codepage 
issues even between the console and GUI apps: when I try to run shell 
commands inside scite the localized (Italian) messages still produce 
some garbage characters instead of the intended chars (those with code 
>127).

Moreover, but this is not related to winapi, I doubt embedded system 
could afford supporting Unicode anytime soon. I'm not an expert, but I 
suspect the memory footprint of Unicode tables & C. probably could be a 
showstopper there.

[snip]


cheers,

--Lorenzo