[fpc-devel] Is calling the Windows Unicode APIs really faster than the ANSI API's?

[Martin Schreiber]

On Sunday 28 September 2008 20.16:36 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Mattias Gaertner

> > Is this normalized form used only internally in msegui or must the user
> > use them too?
>
> I remember when I tried a MSEgui version some time back, that the IDE
> itself used that "normalized form" filenames. I think any file select
> dialogs etc uses that. I first thought it was a bug and reported it,
> and was told it's normal.
>
> I don't know if more recent versions of MSEgui has changed or not.
> All I can say is that from a user perspective, those filenames are
> weird. ;-)
>
It has not changed. You can either enter the system specific or the MSEgui 
form of filenames into filename widgets, they eat both. :-)
On Linux the system and the MSEgui filenames are the same.

Martin