From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T13:03:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 6/27/06, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe I should fork a version of Ruby tailored specifically to Windows.
>> I'll replace all char pointer declarations with tchar pointers, set
>> MBCS, and automatically convert all strings to wide strings using
>> MultiByteToWideChar() behind the scenes, using whatever code page they
>> want, defaulting to CP_UTF8.
>>
>> Right after I get my VC funding. ;)
>
> Trust me. You don't want to do that. TCHAR with -DUNICODE is pure evil.
>
> -austin
Well, it would be -DMBCS. ;)

I cannot even begin to imagine what changes would be required for the 
regex engine.

- Dan