Re: [boost] Boost.Filesystem i18n mini-review

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-25 21:23:50

"Jan Hermelink" <Jan.Hermelink_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:EB650214CCEA984983BC694221A6D3BF01187C_at_JUPITER.muenchen.metalogic.de...
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> At 04:42 AM 7/20/2005, Jan Hermelink wrote:
>>
>>  >Replacing the current implementation thru a simple narrow conversion
>>  >helps as workaround.
>>
>> My understanding (which could be faulty) is that there is no general
>> way to do such a wide to narrow conversion that always works.
>
> I don't know. It works with filenames with german characters but I can't
> say for filenames with e.g. CJK characters.
>
> Another idea:
> - Get a WIN32 file handle with CreateFileW()
> - Get filename from handle:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/obtaining_a_file_name_
> from_a_file_handle.asp
> - use thereby the "Ansi" function to get the "ansi" filename
> (GetMappedFileNameA())
>
> However I have not tested this...

I don't see how that could work unless the codepage is correct, but like you 
I haven't actually tested.

--Beman