Re: Problems with file names containing latin accent characters

Germán Blando <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:09:17 -0300
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Hi Riccardo<br>
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The Win XP where I tested my application has the
standard configuration, i.e. English language.<br>
I&nbsp; can do the test in a spanish installation too. I will do it and
comment the results later.<br>
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Bye. German.<br>
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Riccardo Cohen escribi&oacute;:
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  <pre wrap="">I noticed also that on windows, metakit needs utf8 file names. But did 
not test on other plateforms.I supposed all plateforms need utf8 ?

Anyway I rather changed my code to give utf8 to metakit. Any precision 
would be appreciated.
Thanks

Tecnonucleo wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">Hello all

I've used Metakit for a while, and recently I had some issues with
file names containing accent characters, like &aacute; or &eacute;. It only occurs
in Windows XP. In Linux all works ok.
But in Windows, when the file name had latin accent characters,
Metakit suppress them and thus it tried to open a non existing file.
I debug into Metakit source code and I found that the character
missing happened in this line:

MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, fname_,  - 1, wName, MAX_PATH);

I'm not an expert in Win32 API, but after some googling I decided to
change the CP_UTF8 parameter for CP_ACP. And then all began to work ok
as in Linux. The new version of the previous line now looks like that:

MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, fname_,  - 1, wName, MAX_PATH);

I'm not sure if it make sense to change the Metakit sources that way,
but in any case I want to share this issue and maybe get some feedback
about the patch I applied.

Greetings, German


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