Re: Problems with file names containing latin accent characters

I don't think it depends on windows install.

Germán Blando wrote:
> Hi Riccardo
> 
> The Win XP where I tested my application has the standard configuration, 
> i.e. English language.
> I  can do the test in a spanish installation too. I will do it and 
> comment the results later.
> 
> Bye. German.
> 
> Riccardo Cohen escribió:
>> 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:
>>   
>>> Hello all
>>>
>>> I've used Metakit for a while, and recently I had some issues with
>>> file names containing accent characters, like á or é. 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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