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Windows 95 doesn't support Unicode, it only supported the "ANSI" versions of Win32 functions, so you still had a special Japanese version of Windows. It's NT th
by fredoralive 4y ago
Windows 95 doesn't support Unicode, it only supported the "ANSI" versions of Win32 functions, so you still had a special Japanese version of Windows. It's NT that was Unicode from the start.
- Laforet 4y agoWindows 95 did have some limited support for Unicode. However the vast majority of code were written with a particular code page in mind. https://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/operating_systems.html https://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/operating_systems.html Resident programs that transcoded character sets on the fly were a flourishing business back then and is still occasionally required to run some older binaries.
- anthk 4y agoW95 and W98 had an Unicode addon.
- numpad0 4y agoBesides Windows until around Vista were language specific, you couldn’t switch language but had to clean install a specific desired versions of the OS, be it French or Italian or Japanese builds. Also I’ve heard that NT is all UTF-16 internally, but the default codepage for Japanese builds and locales was always CP932(Shift_JIS) 2-byte encoding, until Windows 10 1903 or so.
- fomine3 4y agoCP932 is still the default on Windows 11 22H2. Changing it causes massive breaking backward compatibility for local legacy software