"novice2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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homeDrive = toString(getenv("HOMEDRIVE")).dup;
homePath = toString(getenv("HOMEPATH")).dup;
don't forget, that D char[] is utf8 and windows char* is 8-bit chars, not
utf8.
so you should import std.windows.charset and use toMBSz() as D->WindowsAPI
and fromMBSz as WindowsAPI->D string converter. for example:
homeDrive = fromMBSz(getenv("HOMEDRIVE")).dup;
Under what setups can the drive letter be a non-ASCII character?
But according to my experiments, getenv works in the OEM encoding rather
than the Windows encoding, so you'd need
homePath = fromMBSz(getenv("HOMEPATH"), 1).dup;
If you want to make sure all Unicode characters are preserved, you're best
off using the Windows API
wchar[] wpath;
wpath.length = GetEnvironmentVariableW("HOMEPATH", null, 0);
GetEnvironmentVariableW("HOMEPATH", wpath.ptr, wpath.length);
Stewart.
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