> However, this is just wrong. NT was Unicode from the beginning, even > at the kernel level. You're right. My fault. MSDN says NT was Unicode from the beginning. --On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:56 AM -0400 Robert William Fuller <hydrologiccycle <at> gmail.com> wrote: > Eris Discordia wrote: >> MS-DOS never had Unicode support. Neither did any Windows version up to >> 3.1, NT 3.5, and 95. NT 4 introduced it into the Microsoft sphere in >> 1996. In 5-6 years--from 1996 to 2001--Windows surpassed Plan 9 in >> Unicode handling, in all practical aspects. > > I'm pretty far from being either a Plan 9, or much less, a Windows > apologist. However, this is just wrong. NT was Unicode from the > beginning, even at the kernel level. Ask any poor sod who had to work on > the NT kernel back then. >