Microsoft Layer for Unicode
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Has anyone ever used it[^]? I've got a few people asking for a W98 version of my newly-converted Unicode app. I don't particularly want to to it but if it's easy, I don't mind. Thing is, it looks pretty much like a hack on Microsoft's part and was wondering how problematic it is to use in practice.
"Sucks less" isn't progress - Kent Beck [^] Awasu 1.1 [^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
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Has anyone ever used it[^]? I've got a few people asking for a W98 version of my newly-converted Unicode app. I don't particularly want to to it but if it's easy, I don't mind. Thing is, it looks pretty much like a hack on Microsoft's part and was wondering how problematic it is to use in practice.
"Sucks less" isn't progress - Kent Beck [^] Awasu 1.1 [^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
MS uses it internally, so it can't be all that bad. ;) The one app I know uses it is the Windows Media Encoder. (How do I know? I interviewed with that team a couple years ago, and one of the managers mentioned it) --Mike-- "Big handwavy generalizations made from a position of deep ignorance is one of the biggest wastes of time on the net today. -- Joel Spolsky Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
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Has anyone ever used it[^]? I've got a few people asking for a W98 version of my newly-converted Unicode app. I don't particularly want to to it but if it's easy, I don't mind. Thing is, it looks pretty much like a hack on Microsoft's part and was wondering how problematic it is to use in practice.
"Sucks less" isn't progress - Kent Beck [^] Awasu 1.1 [^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
I've never programmed for it, but the latest version of Crystal Reports requires it and it seems to be just fine. There is a fair bit of info on it around the net mostly to do with non-english language application programming (Hebrew, Thai, etc). ------------
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Has anyone ever used it[^]? I've got a few people asking for a W98 version of my newly-converted Unicode app. I don't particularly want to to it but if it's easy, I don't mind. Thing is, it looks pretty much like a hack on Microsoft's part and was wondering how problematic it is to use in practice.
"Sucks less" isn't progress - Kent Beck [^] Awasu 1.1 [^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
I tried it last fall and ran into some bugs that have since been fixed in the new releases. (I'm actually using it in my app for the multilingual benefits) If you run into trouble, there's a Microsoft newsgroup available specifically for the MSLU. The link should be at this site: http://www.trigeminal.com/usenet/usenet035.asp?0000011
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MS uses it internally, so it can't be all that bad. ;) The one app I know uses it is the Windows Media Encoder. (How do I know? I interviewed with that team a couple years ago, and one of the managers mentioned it) --Mike-- "Big handwavy generalizations made from a position of deep ignorance is one of the biggest wastes of time on the net today. -- Joel Spolsky Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
So what did you think about interviewing with MS, was it a good experience? -Nick Parker
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Has anyone ever used it[^]? I've got a few people asking for a W98 version of my newly-converted Unicode app. I don't particularly want to to it but if it's easy, I don't mind. Thing is, it looks pretty much like a hack on Microsoft's part and was wondering how problematic it is to use in practice.
"Sucks less" isn't progress - Kent Beck [^] Awasu 1.1 [^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
I'm using in a new digital photo management product I've written. It was reasonably straightforward to use, but you have to get the linker settings just right for it to work correctly. You also have to pay close attention to the APIs that aren't supported (e.g. several printer related functions) and call their ANSI equivalents instead. It is a nice to get away from using ANSI as the lowest common denominator. I am having some issues with some of the software protection technologies that it seems to interfere with, but I've resolved most of those at this point. Regards, Jim Lamb Brilliant Labs, Inc. http://brilliantlabs.com/[^]
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Has anyone ever used it[^]? I've got a few people asking for a W98 version of my newly-converted Unicode app. I don't particularly want to to it but if it's easy, I don't mind. Thing is, it looks pretty much like a hack on Microsoft's part and was wondering how problematic it is to use in practice.
"Sucks less" isn't progress - Kent Beck [^] Awasu 1.1 [^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
For the most part, it works fine. The only problems I've run into are with APIs that most people don't use very often... nitty gritty stuff like EnumPrinters. :) "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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So what did you think about interviewing with MS, was it a good experience? -Nick Parker
It was fine, just really long. I talked to 5 or 6 people I think. I don't know where the stories of brain-teaser questions came from, but I certainly didn't get anything like "why are manhole covers round?". Maybe I was just lucky. ;) --Mike-- "Big handwavy generalizations made from a position of deep ignorance is one of the biggest wastes of time on the net today. -- Joel Spolsky Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber