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Re: Console codepage
Hi!
Thursday, 01 February, 2001 Kazuhiro Fujieda fujieda@jaist.ac.jp wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:48:52 -0500
>>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
>> I can't comment on the validity of the patch itself. I hope that Egor
>> or Kazuhiro will do that.
KF> His patch seems fine to me except for its potential overhead.
KF> I'm afraid the overhead becomes sensible on cheap Win9x boxes.
KF> Console APIs are generally slower on 9x than on NT/2000.
KF> Anyway, I believe his patch is essential for users using 8bit
KF> characters.
this patch works ok for me, too. i don't think that it will lead to
performance degradation, though. i believe that console api on 9x is
slow not because of char<->unicode translation, but because of the
way WriteFile() API works on consoles.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19