Amiga: WinUAE 1.6.0 Beta 15 :: AEP Emulation Page - Emulation News

Beta 15: Unicode test.

WinUAE is now native unicode application (internally all strings are NT native UTF16-LE format instead of 8-bit "ANSI") What does this mean?
+ lots of breakage possible, size of one byte = size of one character isn´t true anymore and finding all cases is difficult. Report all mysterious crashes (they are usually easily duplicated)
+ WindowsAmiga directory filesystem character set conversion can be configured (Windows "code page" may not match Amiga charset = "special" characters should work better now. Default is CP 1252 which is functionally identical to Amiga standard ISO-8859-1)
+ logs and configuration.cache are UTF-8 formatted (UTF-8 is more human readable than UTF-16), "old" charset supported
+ log window supports unicode now, no more weird characters in (for example) device names containing national characters
+ configuration files are still in old format (would cause too many problems with old versions and front ends..)
+ I simply wanted to do this when I dropped 98/ME support but I wasn´t ready until now. (also most new Vista+ APIs are unicode only, converting between ansiunicode was getting too annoying)
ACTION_EXAMINE_ALL was quite broken, it always returned full directory entry data (wrong variable used..) Most (all) programs didn´t care.
"not implemented error" filesystem warning is now shown to user (nobody apparently noticed it in the log = I can never fix it..)
directory filesystem >2G files are shown as 2G minus 1 byte (instead of truncating to 32-bit and showing negative or other random sizes), >4G files internally supported
directory filesystem ACTION_CHANGE_FILE_POSITION64, ACTION_GET_FILE_POSITION64, ACTION_CHANGE_FILE_SIZE64 and ACTION_GET_FILE_SIZE64 implemented (OS4+ packets but also supported by 68k SFS2)
ignore all input events (except activation events or if mousehack is enabled) if no focus and not active (previously only focus was required)