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Maxim · 23rd August 2006, 14:34

I'm struggling to see the advantage of going Fully Unicode in my input plugin - it seems I'll lose backwards compatibility, for a start, and all I'll gain is the headache of supporting Unicode filenames. If I just implement winampGetExtendedFileInfoW, will that do? Will Winamp keep sending me un-Unicode asdf~1 type filenames? Since winampGetExtendedFileInfo(W) are still undocumented, is that OK or likely to be broken?

Finally, why is winampGetExtendedFileInfo still used in preference to winampGetExtendedFileInfoW? If Winamp used the W one first, if available, I could provide both for better backwards compatibility for those tinfoil-helmet types using WA2.91.

23rd August 2006, 14:34	#18
Maxim Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: smspower.org Posts: 107	I'm struggling to see the advantage of going Fully Unicode in my input plugin - it seems I'll lose backwards compatibility, for a start, and all I'll gain is the headache of supporting Unicode filenames. If I just implement winampGetExtendedFileInfoW, will that do? Will Winamp keep sending me un-Unicode asdf~1 type filenames? Since winampGetExtendedFileInfo(W) are still undocumented, is that OK or likely to be broken? Finally, why is winampGetExtendedFileInfo still used in preference to winampGetExtendedFileInfoW? If Winamp used the W one first, if available, I could provide both for better backwards compatibility for those tinfoil-helmet types using WA2.91.