1686850 - NS_ConvertUTF8toUTF16::get should not provide implicit conversions to WCHAR* even on Windows

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

It will lead mistakes such as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1686700#c15.

Comment 1

[Nika Layzell [:nika] (ni? for response)]

This seems to more specifically be about whether the source string is the native charset or utf-16. It is intentional right now that nsString.get() can be converted to wchar_t on Windows, so we're unlikely to change that or the fact that NS_ConvertUTF8toUTF16 returns a nsString in the future.