(SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL) (SPF_SOFTFAIL) RE: Full Unicode Pathnames

[Benson Margulies]

Rootbeer is an old Win32 Unicode Joke.

There used to be a heavily-advertised beverage called A&W rootbeer. 

CreateFileA, CreateFileW. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Wing [mailto:ben at xemacs.org] 
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 7:12 AM
To: Benson Margulies
Cc: Vin Shelton; Stephen J. Turnbull; XEmacs-Beta at xemacs.org
Subject: Re: (SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL) (SPF_SOFTFAIL) RE: Full Unicode Pathnames

Benson Margulies wrote:
> Ah, I think I see.
>
> I need to put all the 'rootbeer' Win32's that I use into the intl-auto-encap-win32.c/.h, and then use the resulting qxe functions.
>
> Less noxious would be to define a single qxeCheckWritable and use that, instead of having to map several aclapi functions just to use them in one place.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xemacs-beta-bounces at xemacs.org [mailto:xemacs-beta-bounces at xemacs.org] On Behalf Of Benson Margulies
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 4:54 PM
> To: Vin Shelton
> Cc: Stephen J. Turnbull; Ben Wing; XEmacs-Beta at xemacs.org
> Subject: RE: Full Unicode Pathnames
>
> Could someone point me at an example of the clich? for converting from an IByte* to UTF-16 for transmission to the Win32 'W' API?
>
>   
i'm not quite sure what you mean by "rootbeer".  we try to reserve the 
qxe() prefix for wrapping actual library functions; don't get in the 
habit of trying to define your own qxe routines and then calling the 
unwrapped library functions -- it's a bad idea for a whole lotta reasons.