Re: [AD] Allegro unable to deal with non ascii filenames

[Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gradha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-05-27, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So, it seems we should do just what you said - try to detect a default
> > encoding, and convert filenames to that (instead of ASCII as right now).
> > If possible, maybe we could include it in 4.2.1 still - seems like a
> > serious flaw :/
> 
> Attached is a first conceptual patch. With this patch, your testcase
> works fine here. It adds a new function "set_file_encoding", used like
> this:

I thought this would break the API? That's why I suggested doing
all this stuff for 4.2.x with no function (tweaking through
configuration/environment), and add the call to 4.3.x.