Win32 port
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Wed Jun 28 06:24:07 PDT 2006
Thiago Macieira wrote:
>
>> One thing to check if doing this is the encoding of windows usernames...
>> are they UTF-8 or UTF-16, or can they be in some other encoding...
>
> Does this matter to us? If usernames are strings, then they are sent over
> the bus as UTF-8.
>
> Internally, I think Windows encodes them as UTF-16, as most of its own API
> is done.
>
Well, for some encodings you can't round-trip through UTF-8 without
losing information, and for a username being byte-identical might be
important ... doesn't seem likely to me, but I know some of the older
Windows APIs were invented pre-unicode so I thought I'd ask.
Havoc
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