Re: winebrowser: Fix broken handling of DDE type XTYP_EXECUTE

[Paul Chitescu]

On Wednesday 02 September 2009 04:15:22 Peter Dons Tychsen wrote:
> XTYPE_EXECUTE DDE transaction for winebrowser is broken.
> The handler currently expects a MultiByte character input, which is
> wrong.
>
> The handler is win-unicode, and will always receive such strings.
> The encoding of the string can be seen in WDML_BuildExecuteCommand().
>
> This fixes programs which use DDE to show a web-link via winebrowser,
> e.g. the "Last Chaos" web-installer:
> http://lastchaos.aeriagames.com/download
>
> Thanks,
>
> /pedro

This has been talked about before and an even safer solution was refused:
  http://www.mail-archive.com/wine-devel(a)winehq.org/msg50183.html
  http://www.mail-archive.com/wine-devel(a)winehq.org/msg50224.html

Unfortunately there is no equivalent in Windows of what Wine does. Windows 
seems to pass around ATOMs as either ANSI (Win 9x, ME) or UCS-2 (NT3x, NT4) 
or UTF-16 (2000+) depending on version.

Wine tries to do it at runtime depending on the Windows version it emulates - 
and that is per process. ANSI programs actually succeed in starting 
winebrowser because they send MBCS to it.