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| author | Tor Lillqvist <tml@src.gnome.org> | 2004-12-15 21:55:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Tor Lillqvist <tml@src.gnome.org> | 2004-12-15 21:55:43 +0000 |
| commit | 72eab4d04d3824706797a31cb3545aa8d36e671c (patch) | |
| tree | b87e495205adeef5c9c3e81143fdd04fc8ef8012 /README.in | |
| parent | 50695caa2c1acb8c74d1d184feabd0f855372143 (diff) | |
Win32 edits.
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.in | 28 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -27,13 +27,21 @@ See the file 'INSTALL' Notes about GLib 2.6.0 ====================== -* GLib 2.6 introduces the concept of a 'filename encoding', which is the - 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. To keep binary compatibility with applications compiled against - older versions of GLib, the Windows dll still provides entry points with - the old semantics. +* GLib 2.6 introduces the concept of 'GLib filename encoding', which is the + 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.) + + 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 + functions. This is transparent to the programmer. * 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 @@ -51,8 +59,10 @@ Notes about GLib 2.6.0 GLib functions are prefixed with IA__. The g_return_if_fail() macros strip this prefix away, but it will show up e.g. in a debugger. -* On Windows, GLib no longer opens a console window if stdout or stderr - are invalid. Simply redirect stdout or stderr if you need to see it. +* On Windows, GLib no longer opens a console window when printing + warning messages if stdout or stderr are invalid, as they are in + "Windows subsystem" (GUI) applications. Simply redirect stdout or + stderr if you need to see them. * The child watch functionality tends to reveal a bug in many thread implementations (in particular the older LinuxThreads implementation |