Re: Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories

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

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:15:43 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Not quite - for interfacing with C you need an null character at the end of
> the string - and for UTF-16 that is easier to handle using Wide_Character
> to append to a Wide_String.

I don't see any problem, just add NUL twice, if you convert anything
manually.

> I found that
> Wide_String and Wide_Character work quite well for a Win32 application.

Yes, this is why I thought it is UCS-2. But there exist some x % of
potential cases where it will stop working.

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