Re: Porting AbiWord for Windows to Unicode

Hi,
Thank you for your suggestions.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org> wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
>>> 1. Is it a good idea to use Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition (Visual
>>> C++ 2008), as I am familiar with it.
>>
>> You may use whatever IDE you like. Visual Studio works fine.
>> Cross-compiling use mingw would probably work fine too.
>
> I recommend that you have handly Visual Studio for debugging proposes. It
> will save you many hours.
>
> It would be common the case where a string is not properly encoded or
> decoded to right charter set and a debugger will be valuable.
>
>>
>> We have no intention of maintaining both an "ANSI" and a "UNICODE"
>> build of AbiWord. Most everyone is using WinXP or newer these days, so
>> a UNICODE-only build should be good enough. Also, because AbiWord
>> depends on Glib, we only run on WinNT-derived platforms. So even if
>> you wanted to have support both the ANSI and UNICODE APIs, in practice
>> only the UNICODE parts would ever be run.
>>
>> Jordi organized his code so that you could build either. Mostly, this
>> uses ugly macros like TCHAR and macro'd functions. I'd prefer that any
>> code submitted for this project use wchar_t and the "W" version of the
>> Win32 APIs.
>
> Back in early 2007 supporting legacy Windows 9x ANSI systems was still an
> issue, nowadays can be completely ignored. This also will simplify the
> porting, building and maintainer project.
>
+1
Yes. At that time, it was a topic of discussion, whether to continue
the support for the obsolete windows 9X systems. But now, obviously it
is not.
I am looking deep more into the bug reports and getting some ideas.
> Regards,
>
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Thank you.
Regards.
Pradeeban.

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