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polish, or win32? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 days ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 52 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

This looks fun. I don't know any Polish but I've seen it around, and I used to be kinda fluent in win32 years ago. I'll have a go. [Edited updated best guess in brackets.]

spoiler

  • LPCWSTR win32 string type [longpointer(32bit) to c style (null terminated) wide(UTF-16 characters) string]
  • PSZCZYNA Polish
  • WCSLEN win32 type for storing the length of a WCS (whatever that is)
  • WCZESNY Polish
  • LPCTSTR win32 string type [longpointer to c style T? string]
  • BYDGOSZCZ Polish
  • WSTRZAS Polish. Tricky because it contains STR, but feels much more Polish than win32.
  • HGDIOBJ Polish? [win32 handle to a GDI object]
  • DOWOD Polish
  • HWINSTA win32. handle for a (static?) window maybe.
  • DLUGOSC Polish
  • LPCSTR win32 string type [longpointer to c style string]
  • DWORD win32 (and any other c based 32bit OS) 4 byte integer type (or 8 bytes in 64 bit OSs) [remembered wrong here. in some systems DWORD changes size with architecture, but in Windows it was 32 bits in win16, and so it is forever]
  • KAL Polish??
  • LPWSTR win32 string type [longpointer to wide string]
  • SZCZECIN Polish
  • BLAD Polish
  • PUHALF Win32 pointer to unsigned 1 byte integer (or 2 byte in 64bit)
  • CHUJ Polish
  • UHALF win32 unsigned 1 byte integer
[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

damn, you're good.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Identifying the windows string types is fun. The letters are supposed to have a meaning. Without looking them up, my guess is:

LP_ - Length Prepended
C_STR - C string / null-terminated
WSTR - "Wide" string / utf-16
TSTR - I have no idea

[–] required@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I have no idea what the "T" stands for, but TSTR refers to either a Wide or ANSI string depending on whether the UNICODE symbol is defined

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

LP is actually "Long Pointer", which means 32 bits. Why is that called a long pointer? Because that's what a long pointer was on win16. Same reason a DWORD (double word) is also 32 bits, because a word was 16 bits.

I haven't really done much with coding 64 bit Windows applications so I don't if it's the same, but Windows 16 bit roots was very obvious in win32.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

I haven't done much programming that makes use of the win32 types, but just from tech support and sysadmin type stuff I can confirm that DWORDs are still 32 bits. See them a lot in the Registry.

Given Window's (sometimes questionable) attempts to maintain backwards compatibility, and the fact that a lot of the OS functionality and sysadmin tools are, at best, kludge built up in layers over decades on top of the old tools, I would strongly suspect that the win32 types are still the exact same size-wise despite the now 64-bit underlying architecture.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks for correcting me. Considering a long is also 32 bits, a "Long Pointer" being 32 bits makes sense.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I mean Szczecin and Bydgoszcz are fairly well known place names, and chuj is a well known word for other reasons, so those are the easiest apart from DWORD which I think I've seen in the Windows registry.

I would have picked the same except for HGDIOBJ, the OBJ screams "object" and it wouldn't be very pronounceable in Polish orthography, not even by the standards of Polish. Have not looked any up though.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

DWORD is as obvious to me as all the ones containing unicode strings.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

The H in HGDIOBJ could mean "handle to" and if I'm remembering right, GDI is a Windows graphics drawing interface.

[–] Rinn@awful.systems 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Fun, but I don't love the Polish word selection because a lot of these are supposed to contain special characters and they're not actual real Polish words without them.

Like blad - that's not a word. Błąd is a word, it means a mistake. So does this count or no? Or kal vs kał, one is a word (means feces) and one is just some letters.

[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, if an average person were to type it in all caps on their computer, would they be able to easily type the diacritics?

[–] Rinn@awful.systems 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

In Poland we use standard qwerty keyboards with Polish keyboard layout set (called Polish Programmers), you press alt+character to get the special version (like alt+s gives you ś, alt+a gives you ą and so on, the only nonintuitive one is alt+x which is ź, because alt+z is taken by ż). Combine with shift or caps lock for capital versions. No issues.

[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Neat. I wish the French had something similar!

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

it doesn't work as well for French because there are multiple accents for a given letter (è, é, ê, ë...)

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Can do it with the compose key if you're on *nix, and here's an implementation for Windows.

+ e + ^ = ê, and + shift + E + " = Ë, etc.

[–] solxix@pawb.social 3 points 6 days ago

You can also use compose key on any distro (from my experience) with KDE Plasma or GNOME

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Or you can use a French keyboard layout, type ` followed by a to get à, same with â, ä, or ç. É has its own key, since it's more common and the only letter that uses the acute accent. No more complicated than key combinations, and easier hand positions than 3-key combinations, really.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Meanwhile on android:

Å#_₹ñö

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh, noooo... I've been now thinking of using Alt+letter to launch !ahk@programming.dev scripts! Oh, well... Guess I'll continue to live in MURRIKA instead of learning like the rest of the world.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

They would, all diacritics is alt + letter.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm Polish and I'm hesitating about Hwinsta.

[–] kspatlas@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago

It's apparently a win32 type, it's almost valid in polish which is funny though

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If it was polish it would start with ch...

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Aboslutely, but chwinsta could tottaly be in polish dictionary. Sounds like some type of animal feed based on beetroot.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

It definitely would transform to chwiństwa, as that's how polish words morph. But I see your point.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Windows is built using Hungarian notation . Comparing it to Polish feels a bit wrong.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah but our phonology is way more strict than polish's so they just dont work in hungarian sadly. Tho its funny that string is sz which i think just comes from sz being pronounced like s in string in hungarian but in polish its much more logical where sz is pronounced like sh in shack and s is pronounced s.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

FCKGW

RHQQ2

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

YXRKT
8TG6W

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

2B7Q8

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

A seal has been opened.

[–] kspatlas@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the missing diacritics slightly annoy me (but it also makes sense considering they would give the polish ones away)

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Same with file extensions on the other side.

[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

1 = Win32 2 = Polish

121212212121121212121?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Kurwa bobr!

[–] excral@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

I would just guess Polish for every word that has a Z. Probably not entirely correct but I doubt I could improve much from there

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 3 points 6 days ago

As if I ever needed proof of spending way too much time with windows server

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Here are my guesses compiled from the very little knowledge of polish i have from being hungarian and my general programming knowledge(i have never in my life done any windows programming or even touched it with a 6 foot long yardstick):

spoiler

Pszczyna

Wczesny

Bydogoszcz

Dowod

Hwinsta?(the h looks sus)

Dlugosc(im not sure sc is possible in polish)

Kal

Szczecin

Blad

Chuj

Also a lot of these would have a million diacritics on them no?

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not Polish (not too far away though).

I think I'd get most of these right, but probably not all. HWINSTA? DOWOD?

[–] wylinka@szmer.info 4 points 6 days ago

HWINSTA is not a real word, but DOWOD is ("dowód", meaning proof).

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

I read Petzold cover to cover and this was straightforward