[ros-dev] About UNICODE<->ASCII support.

[carlo.bramix]

Hello everyone,
I just would like talk about a recent fix applied to one of the components of ReactOS.
It is not my intention to make problems in any way with this topic, or pretending a change
of the direction taken by the project (peace!).
In that recent change, the hybrid support for both ASCII and UNICODE support into task
manager has been dropped.
I would like that you try to review your opinion on such changes.
Me too, I want final builds of executables in unicode format.
I think to know almost all advantages of international support.
However, I also believe that you should not see the ASCII support as something to throw
out of the window, but as a chance, because not all applications in the world are compiled
as unicode, so having something to test the ASCII implementation included into ROS is not
a so bad idea.
As I said, it is a chance for testing.
Some of the work here seems derived from wine, but probably (or better: surely) people
behind wine had to face to the problem called "debugging" before they got
something stable.
A closed-source application may not work, but at least there is a chance (perhaps minimal
or even less) to replicate a bug into one of the applications available to us.
Technically, it isn't a problem for me to make things working on win9x, since I just
need to link to UNICOWS.DLL and the problem is almost solved.
I just don't like very much that position.
And I also understand that my opinion isn't important at all in front of your
decisions or the ReactOS standard.

Sincerely,

Carlo Bramini.