[PATCH 1/2] Added a function to check if specific OS features are available

Lubomir I. Ivanov neolit123 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 05:09:26 PDT 2012


On 22 October 2012 14:40, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen
<subsurface at henrik.synth.no> wrote:
> Den 20.10.12 16:35, skrev Dirk Hohndel:
>
>> On Oct 20, 2012, at 7:28 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
>>
>>> On 20 October 2012 08:24, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to test if the selected font supports the required
>>>> character instead of determining this based on the OS version? Would
>>>> be more universal approach that way.
>>
>> In general I agree. But for the last few years the major OSs all have had
>> reasonable Unicode fonts bundled.
>> So this is mainly an issue with very old OSs. As mentioned, XP is more
>> than a decade old.
>
>
> Fun fact:  I just discovered that the unicode stars worked for me, out of
> the box, in the rc1-localized version in WinXP Pro SP3 (running in
> VirtualBox).  In the latest rc3, they don't work.
>
> See the attached images.
>

the current method only checks the version's major number:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724832(v=vs.85).aspx

so all XP should be ignored, assuming this bit works as expected:
if ((GetVersion() & 0xff) < 6)

one version of XP working and one not is suspicious, yet:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724439(v=vs.85).aspx
"For all platforms, the low-order word contains the version number of
the operating system. The low-order byte of this word specifies the
major version number, in hexadecimal notation"

lubomir
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