Re: [Lynx-dev] UTF-8 MS Windows

[Gisle Vanem]

"Thomas Dickey" <address@hidden> wrote:

> say, but for windows, it's buried in the dll information (the wide-character
> pdcurses.dll is 118784 bytes, while the non-wide one is a few hundred bytes
> shorter).  The installers that I built last year use the wide-character 
> pdcurses.

I have not tried this option. But using SLang 2.2.4 (build with 
-D_UNICODE + -DUNOCODE) and the same in lynx all hell breaks 
loose. E.g.:
 src/LYUtils.c(7782) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible types - from 
'const char *' to 'LPCWSTR'
 src/LYUtils.c(7822) : warning C4133: 'return' : incompatible types - from 
'LPTSTR' to 'char *'

The MS-convention (as we all know?) is that LPTSTR etc. maps to 'char *'
or 'wchar_t *' depending on ASCII (default) or UNICODE. But the lynx-sources 
can never accept building with '-DUNICODE' because of such errors shown 
above. 

So using TCHAR/LPTSTR etc. in the sources has no point as-is. The good
news is that it won't be so difficult to fix AFAICS. I have identified these 
files with ASCII/UNICODE errors/warnings:

 # err/warn    file:
 -------------------------
  7            src/LYExtern.c  
  1            src/LYMain.c       
  1            src/LYMainLoop.c 
 13            src/LYUtils.c
  2            lib/dirent.c
  4            WWW/Library/Implementation/HTFile.c  
  4            WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTCP.c 
  2            WWW/Library/Implementation/HTDOS.c 

Btw. line 7782 of LYUtils.c is:
    lstrcpy((LPTSTR) pLogData, szBuffer);

So I'm not sure what the "official" way to support wide-chars in Lynx/Win32
is.

--gv