> On Dec. 20, 2016, 12:29 a.m., Daniel Pravat wrote:
> > 3rdparty/stout/include/stout/windows/os.hpp, line 748
> > <https://reviews.apache.org/r/54877/diff/1/?file=1589098#file1589098line748>
> >
> >     I don't think the conversion to UTF-8 is appropiate here.
> 
> Andrew Schwartzmeyer wrote:
>     What would you convert it to? It's currently in UTF-16, and Windows paths 
> are allowed to have (almost) any Unicode character.
> 
> Alex Clemmer wrote:
>     I think he's saying that bad things will happen if you use strings that 
> have Unicode in them, so it's probably better to just error out.
> 
> Andrew Schwartzmeyer wrote:
>     I'm not following... That is a case our codebase must deal with, NTFS 
> paths are stored in Unicode:
>     
>     
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748(v=vs.85).aspx
>     
>     and on top of that, Windows file paths can:
>     
>     > Use any character in the current code page for a name, including 
> Unicode characters and characters in the extended character set (128–255)
>     
>     
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
>     
>     So what I'm saying is that bad things _must not happen_ if we have paths 
> with non-ASCII characters in them; we need to handle that at any point we 
> deal with file paths on Windows.
>     
>     I'm not saying this function is likely to return a path like `C:\ÂÑÐ¥`, 
> but that would be a valid file path, and so we must be treating all our paths 
> on Windows as Unicode.
>     
>     If this is not the case, are purposefully constraining ourselves to 
> ASCII, and if so, why?

Sorry, I meant bad things will happen to Mesos if you give it strings with 
unicode in them. Mesos itself does not deal with Unicode gracefully.


- Alex


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On Dec. 19, 2016, 11:20 p.m., Andrew Schwartzmeyer wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 19, 2016, 11:20 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for mesos, Daniel Pravat, Alex Clemmer, and Joseph Wu.
> 
> 
> Repository: mesos
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> The API `SHGetKnownFolderPath` requires `Shell32.dll`,
> which is not available on Nano server.
> The equivalent API `GetAllUsersProfileDirectory`
> only requires `Userenv.dll`, which is available on Nano.
> 
> This API is also friendlier, as we own the allocation.
> 
> The Unicode version `GetAllUsersProfileDirectoryW` is
> explicitly used so that we are guaranteed a Unicode path,
> which we then convert from UTF-16 to UTF-8,
> instead of using the ASCII version which depends on a
> varying Windows code-page, and is not recommended.
> 
> A `vector<wchar_t>` is used over a `wstring` to avoid dealing
> with the placement of the null-terminating character.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   3rdparty/stout/include/stout/windows.hpp 
> e641c46d033372e1b6c9f9c066b1ad4957d55088 
>   3rdparty/stout/include/stout/windows/os.hpp 
> 5cd92545a49648e39e8eb7cf131895e9cfc97902 
> 
> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/54877/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> cmake && msbuild, attach agent to master and check default `runtime_dir` 
> value.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Schwartzmeyer
> 
>

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