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Unicode names with DOSLFN driver (Developers)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 20.09.2011, 06:47

> That's not feasible. The current interfaces are defined as they are, you
> can't just use DF set as indicator for a different encoding because
> existing software might expect the interface to just work as usual with DF
> set as well.

I think I can. Almost nobody uses DF flag. Besides that virtualy all programers expect that DF is zero - not very programmers even test it when using instructions like REP MOVSD
I am pretty sure that no existing program will be affected with using DF as a parameter.
All "LFN UTF ready" programs when calling UTF version of LFN service would set DF just before INT and immediately after INT again clear DF.

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Complete thread:

• Unicode names with DOSLFN driver - Laaca, 16.09.2011, 22:22
  • Unicode names with DOSLFN driver - ron, 17.09.2011, 01:11
  • Unicode names with DOSLFN driver - ecm, 17.09.2011, 14:41
    • Unicode names with DOSLFN driver - Laaca, 19.09.2011, 15:46
      • Unicode names with DOSLFN driver - ecm, 20.09.2011, 06:06
        • Unicode names with DOSLFN driver - Laaca, 20.09.2011, 06:47
          • Unicode names with DOSLFN driver - Japheth, 20.09.2011, 08:49