On 04/10/17 22:15, DougC [email protected] [firebird-support] wrote:
Hamish-
Windows short path names are decidedly NOT for apps that cannot handle
Unicode. They were introduced far earlier than that and were intended
for programs that could not handle anything but the short 8.3 limits
for any given file or folder name. That they often help with avoiding
unicode is a side effect.
Sound like your misunderstanding of this may be contributing to your
frustration.
Doug,
I'm aware that short filenames are a work around for applications which
can't support long filenames (which date from Windows 95). They also
seem to nicely work around applications which are too dumb to support
valid Windows 16-bit filenames, like Firebird. I don't agree that it's
just a side effect that they avoid unicode, since I had unicode parts
that fit in the 8.3 short filename format.
I realise that Firebird needs to use either long or short names
consistently so as to avoid inadvertently opening the same file by
different names (with locking issues and the like), but the solution is
to use only short names or handle long names properly.
Hamish
