Win95, Memphis, & Unicode

Michael Carroll

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Jul 2, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/2/97

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Can anyone tell me if Memphis will support Unicode in the way NT 4.0 does?

(Details: KB article Q169395 says the DAO 3.5 SDK is thread-safe, but
only for UNICODE builds. DAO 3.5 SDK documentation says UNICODE builds
(using VC++ 5.0) are only available under NT, not Win95. Who would
want to write a DAO program that only ran under NT? -- So is MS adding
Unicode support in Memphis, so that this change to DAO makes sense?)

E-mail preferred. TIA.

Michael Carroll
Research Libraries Group
br....@rlg.org

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Ron Pinto

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Jul 14, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/14/97

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> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 16:09:25 CST
> From: Michael Carroll <br....@rlg.org>
> Subject: Win95, Memphis, & Unicode

>
> Can anyone tell me if Memphis will support Unicode in the way NT 4.0 does?

I don't think there is someone at microsoft know that answer ;)

Ron.

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Daniel Stricharz

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Jul 24, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/24/97

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Ron Pinto (r...@vipe.technion.ac.il) wrote:
: > Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 16:09:25 CST

: > From: Michael Carroll <br....@rlg.org>
: > Subject: Win95, Memphis, & Unicode
: >
: > Can anyone tell me if Memphis will support Unicode in the way NT 4.0 does?

: I don't think there is someone at microsoft know that answer ;)

: Ron.

There won't be any Unicode support in Memphis, since this would mean a
complete rewrite of the OS. Don't ask me about the technical reasons.
I'm just repeating a statement from MS, I heard several weeks ago.

Daniel

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W.Y. CHEUK

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Jul 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/25/97

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>There won't be any Unicode support in Memphis, since this would mean a
>complete rewrite of the OS. Don't ask me about the technical reasons.
>I'm just repeating a statement from MS, I heard several weeks ago.
>
>Daniel
>

MS Word97 & IE4 has already supported the use of Unicode.
I think Microsoft will add more Unicode support through additional
applications
rather than at the OS level (such as adding a Unicode-enabled Wordpad).

YEUNG

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Tim Roberts

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Jul 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/26/97

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stri...@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de (Daniel Stricharz) wrote:

>Ron Pinto (r...@vipe.technion.ac.il) wrote:
>: >
>: > Can anyone tell me if Memphis will support Unicode in the way NT 4.0 does?
>
>: I don't think there is someone at microsoft know that answer ;)
>

>There won't be any Unicode support in Memphis, since this would mean a
>complete rewrite of the OS.

I think it's important to point out this does not preclude the use of
Unicode applications. The compiler will happily generate Unicode strings
regardless of the O/S, and Memphis (and Win95) supports the ANSI C library
Unicode functions (such as mbstowcs and wcstombs). As long as you remember
to convert strings to ANSI before calling a Win32 API, it will work fine.

- Tim Roberts, ti...@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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Douglas A. Hamilton

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Jul 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/27/97

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Tim Roberts <ti...@probo.com> wrote in article
<33da0d39....@news.teleport.com>...

> stri...@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de (Daniel Stricharz) wrote:
> >There won't be any Unicode support in Memphis, since this would mean a
> >complete rewrite of the OS.
>
> I think it's important to point out this does not preclude the use of
> Unicode applications. The compiler will happily generate Unicode strings
> regardless of the O/S, and Memphis (and Win95) supports the ANSI C library
> Unicode functions (such as mbstowcs and wcstombs). As long as you remember
> to convert strings to ANSI before calling a Win32 API, it will work fine.

I think it's important to point out that this is nearly useless if the reason
you're using Unicode is because you actually need Unicode.
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