[issue23995] msvcrt could not be imported

[eryksun]

eryksun added the comment:

The new CRT used by 3.5 has a separate header, corecrt_wconio.h, for declarations shared by conio.h and wchar.h. Thus the _WCONIO_DEFINED macro is no longer defined, and consequently PC/msvcrtmodule.c skips defining getwch, getwche, putwch, and ungetwch.

I guess this check was added to support DOS-based Windows 9x. NT-based Windows would always support wide-character console I/O.

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components: +Windows
nosy: +eryksun, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware

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