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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 19:07:26 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: VFAT 32 support in msdosfs 
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On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> Try almost any foobarW API and it will fail.  Win95 will also not
> automatically convert between UNICODE and ANSI strings when a message
> passes between windows that use different string types.

Over on the unicode mailing list, there was a lot of discussion
(grumbling) about this, and the general conclusion was that
writing Unicode applications to work on Win95 sure fire way to
programmer insanity, if not suicide.

-john