Further Win32 edits.

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Tor Lillqvist 2004-12-15 22:08:37 +00:00
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@ -31,18 +31,27 @@ Notes about GLib 2.6.0
on-disk encoding on Unix, but UTF-8 on Windows. All GLib functions
returning or accepting pathnames have been changed to expect
filenames in this encoding, and the common POSIX functions dealing
with pathnames have been wrapped. On Windows these wrappers use the
wide-character API to do the actual file handling, so applications
can handle file names containing any Unicode characters, not just
those in the system codepage. (Wide character API is not available
on Win9x.)
with pathnames have been wrapped. These wrappers are declared in the
header <glib/gstdio.h> which must be included explicitly, it is not
included through <glib.h>.
On current (NT-based) Windows versions, where the on-disk file names
are Unicode, these wrappers use the wide-character API in the C
library. Thus applications can handle file names containing any
Unicode characters through GLib's own API and its POSIX wrappers,
not just file names restricted to characters in the system codepage.
To keep binary compatibility with applications compiled against
older versions of GLib, the Windows DLL still provides entry points
with the old semantics using the old names, and applications
compiled agains GLib 2.6 will actually use new names for the
compiled against GLib 2.6 will actually use new names for the
functions. This is transparent to the programmer.
When compiling against GLib 2.6, applications intended to be
portable to Windows must take the UTF-8 file name encoding into
consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
names have been constructed from strings returned from GLib.
* Likewise, g_get_user_name() and g_get_real_name() have been changed to return
UTF-8 on Windows, while keeping the old semantics for applications compiled
against older versions of GLib.