libunicows w/gcj MingW?

Mon Nov 8 14:58:00 GMT 2004

Mohan Embar wrote:
>Hi People,
>>I just revisited the libunicows SF page:
>>http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/
>>...and saw that in the section "Alternatives to MSLU",
>they talk about how including unicows.dll is unfriendly
>to Open Source programs. Given that there are non-unicows.dll-based
>workarounds for Win9X, WinNT, etc. should we just dump
>libunicows support and go with ansi / unicode?
>>
My understanding is that using "ansi" would give you a non-Unicode 
libgcj, that works on all versions of Windows, while "unicode" would 
give you a Unicode-based libgcj, that only works on Windows 
NT/2000/XP/etc. If so, I think thats a perfectly reasonable trade-off. 
There arn't that many Win9x systems left these days, and most new 
Windows software seems to require at least Win2k.
Regards
Bryce