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Maybe they can introduce OS API versions (if there's no such thing yet) and require new (or updated) apps targetting new API versions/newer SDKs to assume UTF8

by kgeist 2y ago

Maybe they can introduce OS API versions (if there's no such thing yet) and require new (or updated) apps targetting new API versions/newer SDKs to assume UTF8 by default? So everything below a certain API version is emulated legacy mode. Windows already has the concept of shims to emulate behavior of different Windows versions.

layer8 2y ago
Apps can already opt-in to UTF-8 for the ANSI APIs (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649122), or use the wide-character APIs.