Re: [Boost-build] Using bjam with Chinese direcory

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-11 14:50:08

On Thursday 07 August 2008 18:02:19 William Marié wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to compile my project from a chinese directory and apparently the
> bjam import rule can't work the path because of the chinese characters.
> Are there any options i need to specify bjam i want to used wide char
> characters. I'm sure it has been designed to be able to create programs in
> China and so compile from a Chinese directory name.
> 
> 
> Does anyone know about that ?

I'm afraid I don't know anything about this. bjam uses 8-bit strings, therefore
I'd expect it to work fine in 8-bit encoding (including utf-8). I don't know
how Chinese systems are generally configured, and you did not tell any details.
I don't know if anybody tried this before.

- Volodya