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@winehq.org/msg50183.html http://www.mail-archive.com/wine-devel@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.
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Paul Chitescu