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		kgeist on Jan 9, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows... Maybe they can introduce OS API versions (if there's no such thing yet) and require new (or updated) apps targetting new API versions/newer SDKs to assume UTF8 by default? So everything below a certain API version is emulated legacy mode. Windows already has the concept of shims to emulate behavior of different Windows versions.

layer8 on Jan 9, 2025 [–]

Apps can already opt-in to UTF-8 for the ANSI APIs (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649122), or use the wide-character APIs.

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