Re: [AD] Windows unicode filename support

[Michal Molhanec <michal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris napsal(a):
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 16:23, Michal Molhanec wrote:
> > Well, you don't need dynamically allocated strings, I used them because
> > I just hate fixed size buffers.
>
> Yes, and the stack already has a nice 1K buffer on it for this, and globals 
> aren't terribly nice. Hence, problematic. ;)

My patch didn't use any global variable.

> > Every Windows machine has proper codepage set, many applications would
> > not work otherwise.
>
> I was under the impression that the user can set a different codepage 
> depending on their want. These codepages could have the same 7-bit ASCII base 
> set, but then add over a hundred more.. like, Latin characters, or German 
> characters, or whatever.

Normally is Windows codepage set during Windows installation based on 
selected regional settings.
Under WinXP you can change codepage for nonunicode programs, I don't 
know if it was possible under Win98. However, there does not exist any 
rational reason for doing so. I'm not enough crazy to test it what it 
will do to my filenames on FAT partition.
But that's not important, you are not specifying any particular encoding 
 in the WideCharToMultibyte function, you are just saying "convert it 
to user's ANSI codepage whatever it is". You are not interested in exact 
encoding.

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Regards,
    Michal

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