Re: [xml] LoadLibrary needs to be LoadLibraryA

["Cory Nelson" <phrosty gmail com>]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Roumen Petrov
<bugtrack roumenpetrov info> wrote:
>
>  On 9x LoadLibraryW should trigger error "function is not supported".
>  On NT LoadLibraryW on fat system should try to convert  UCS-2LE
>  sequence of bytes to 8-bit depending from user locale. If system switch
>  to a new but incompatible locale, file(library) cannot be found, more
>  since in this case convertion UCS-2LE->new locale will fail.
>  The short file name/path may not help to resolve problem since the same
>  file/path (at application level) name is stored with different name on
>  file system (fat or nfts) and as result short name will differ too.
>

FAT supports UTF-16 in long filenames - only short names are encoded
in an ANSI codepage.  NT has used UTF-16 (as opposed to UCS-2) since
2000.

>
>  What about libxml (only for win32) to define xxxA and xxxW functions always.
>  First (xxxA) to use LoadLibraryA and  second xxxW - LoadLibraryW.
>
>  Also for binary compatibility function xxx should exist too and to use
>  LoadLibraryA, i.e. to call xxxA.
>  The header can define xxx to xxxW if UNICODE is defined otherwise - xxxA.
>

This would be nice, but is a breaking change.

-- 
Cory Nelson