[patch #4415] base: mingw unicode filesystemRep

[Jeremy Bettis]

Follow-up Comment #2, patch #4415 (project gnustep):

I think it would be safer to tell the world that win32 works differently in
the header file.  For example, the change to filesystemRepresentation broke
my code, and I didn't even know it.  I updated by gnustep-base library to a
new version, and didn't get a compiler warning or anything, but
filesystemRepresentation only returned the first character of the string.
(From my perspective interpreting it as a char*)

The current functionally is flat out dangerous.  Either return a char* or
change the header to what you will actually return.  You can't expect every
user of -[NSString filesystemRepresentation] to read the source code of
gstep-base.

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