Re: Filename encoding on XP

2007-01-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
kent sin schrieb: What encoding does the NTFS store the filename? In UTF-16LE. However, on-disk storage is mostly irrelevant, what matters is what encoding is used on the OS API. Windows has two forms of file API: Wide (Unicode) and ANSI (byte-oriented). On NT, the Wide API is native; the ANSI

Filename encoding on XP

2007-01-02 Thread kent sin
What encoding does the NTFS store the filename? I got some downloaded files, some with Chinese filename, I can not backup them to CD because the name is not accepted. I use walk, then print the filename, there are some ? in it, but some Chinese characters were display with no problem. I suspect