Re: Unicode support for the MS Windows clipboard

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Eli,


>> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <address@hidden>
>> - CF_OEMTEXT - [...] line drawing characters [...] 9x/Me

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> Doesn't Unicode support line-drawing characters?

>> CF_UNICODETEXT [on 9x/Me ...]

As I said in the other post, applications on 95 and 98 do not support
CF_UNICODETEXT and the format is not automatically converted by the
system as it is on NT/W2K/XP.  This is as documented on MSDN.

> [...] if selection-coding-system is the same as the system codepage,
> we should use CF_TEXT, as that will, AFAIK, allow more (older)
> applications to be able to paste.

That is the case with the algorithm I outlined in my other mail.


benny