Re: More MSDN lies: RtlStringCchLength

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"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> you are getting really hung up on TCHAR.
>
> Because I saw it used, and I saw headers make it available.

You have been told that this is strictly because some headers are used for
both kernel and user mode code; in the latter case, TCHAR must be supported.
Don't use it in kernel mode, and you'll be fine. I do not use it even in
user mode.

[...]

> For more than 20 years your company has been shipping OSes with multibyte
> characters for ANSI

Windows 1.0 was shipped on 20-Nov-1985, and that's less than 20 years, so
you must be talking about MS DOS 3.x. I do not think MS DOS ever supported
multi-byte characters; at any rate, I am not aware of any standard
multi-byte encoding that gained universal acceptance until early nineties.
Even extended _single_ byte encodings were in a great state of confusion
well into mid-nineties, and even now I accidentally come across supposedly
Cyrillic encodings that must be literally deciphered -- which I usually
avoid doing ;-)

S



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