Ah, I didn't get the detail of your first message right.
So you're saying the CP_ACP is a bad idea.
Do you (does anyone) know of a way to figure out which conversion to
use ?
Danny
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 02:26 -0700, Pawel Veselov wrote:
> In windows, you specify what the target encoding is. It's possible to
> convert to UTF-8, or other things, but the current implementation uses
> CP_ACP that requests the translation is done into ASCII encoding. I
> think in UNIX that is determined by one of them LC_* environment
> variables.
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Sébastien Lorquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I believed multibyte strings were using UTF-8, is it true or not?
> >
> > 2008/9/11 Danny Backx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:25 -0700, Pawel Veselov wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I was looking at the libcwd... There is a XCEGetCurrentDirectoryA()
> >> > function. It picks the current directory, that is stored in wide
> >> > chars, determines its length (in wide chars), and then converts wide
> >> > chars to multibyte. Then the wide char length is used as a terminator
> >> > for the length of the multibyte string. Since it's using CP_ACP
> >> > encoding, I guess the wide char length will translate into correct
> >> > character length, but if there is any character that doesn't fit into
> >> > ASCII table, you kinda boned...
> >> >
> >> > So, umm, what's the general policy for handling international
> >> > characters anywhere (within the confinements of cegcc)? I guess I'm
> >> > really asking about what it should be, rather than what it is now.
> >>
> >> The internals are as you describe but the external interface to libcwd
> >> is unix-like, meaning single byte characters for file names.
> >>
> >> You could probably make it more foolproof, but doesn't this mean you're
> >> eventually going to be scr*wed if you're using this on directories with
> >> names that don't fit in ASCII ?
> >>
> >> Danny
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