Re: Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:19:44 -0000, Vadim Godunko wrote:

> On Nov 14, 12:31 pm, Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh
> +bauh...@maps.futureapps.de> wrote:
>>
>> package IConv is
>>
>>     -- the missing link to, e.g.
>>     --http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
>>
>> end IConv;
>>
> This sees as too complex solution for me. Long time we are using only
> Wide_Character and Wide_String in our code and bindings to the
> wcstombs(3)/mbstowcs(3) functions pair for conversion between locale
> multibyte (char *) strings and wide (wchar_t *) strings. This work
> well on most *nix systems, I don't known does or doesn't it work on
> Windows.

MS Visual C++ has them. In API there is MultiByteToWideChar

   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776413.aspx,

which does not what its name suggests (should be MultiByteToMultiWORD (:-))

The problem is that Windows since NT is UTF-16, rather than UCS-2. So to
use Wide_String just makes no any sense. It is not an array of characters
anyway. Thus one could use plain String instead.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de