preparation for support windows 98 ? or what is it #13980

issue alexeyneu opened this issue on August 15, 2018

alexeyneu commented at 11:38 AM on August 15, 2018: none

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/63f8b0128b2aac3b25c6ec4d2f5bda213033162a/src/qt/guiutil.cpp#L567 So why someone may want not to define unicode?
fanquake commented at 11:40 AM on August 15, 2018: member

Please don't use this issue tracker to ask general questions about the codebase. The bitcoin stack exchange would be better suited for that: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com.
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alexeyneu commented at 12:43 PM on August 15, 2018: none

really it's not a question. All other stuff except unicode should be removed once you'd decide to support it
sipa commented at 2:22 PM on August 15, 2018: member

Windows 98 is over 20 years old, and stopped having support from its vendor over 12 years ago.

It seems completely insane to me that you'd want to run wallet software on an unsupported, old, system like that.

No, Bitcoin Core dropped Windows XP a while ago for the same reason (it is no longer supported since 4 years ago). We're not going back.
alexeyneu commented at 3:14 PM on August 15, 2018: none

@sipa i mean unicode support .windows 98 is the last(really last is millenium) that's not support it . it's not a big problem to have one more #define block but it becomes one if you see tchar in unicode block.
MarcoFalke commented at 3:49 PM on August 15, 2018: member

@alexeyneu Indeed we are working on that. Please help to review #13869 to make progress here.
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