Atoms in Windows? - A look at the Windows Atom API

[@adruna]

Interesting content, thanks for sharing! I am looking forward to your next video! :)

[@rol1939]

It's a shame that Microsoft doesn't enhance WIN32 so much anymore. I never heard of a good native JSON parser in WIN32 for example... It would be a piece of cake to add it in the multi-gigabyte update package that Windows 10/11 does every month.

[@DaniCrunch]

I am just happy that the ANSI functions now support UTF-8 😅 but yeah apart from that it has been quiet on the Win32 front.

[@KkkKkk-re9il]

​​​@@DaniCrunchMost of the winapi procedures support only Unicode 16, not UTF-8. There are, however, Unicode 16 UTF-8 conversion procedures as well. MS calls UTF-8 strings "multi-byte stings" and Unicode 16 strings simply "Unicode strings".

[@DaniCrunch]

Nope. They now support UTF-8 as you can set the whole process codepage to UTF-8 which then lets you use UTF-8 encoded strings with the A API calls. There might still be some APIs that require UTF-16 strings but most of what I use had A variants and worked just fine.

[@maksymiliank5135]

@@DaniCrunch I think it's ironic. They added the -W version of their API to support unicode and deprecated the "ANSI" version. Now it's the other way around.

[@picoplex]

where is GameBoy Assembler source code? thank you.

[@DaniCrunch]

Not publicly available yet