Re: [Boost-users] [FileSystem] Internationalization woes on windows

From: Cory Nelson (phrosty_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-14 23:59:03

filesystem is being revamped to support wide-char names, this was
discussed a while ago.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:52:03 -0000, Mark Holloway
<Mark.Holloway_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I know this has been discussed a fair bit but I'd just like to get
> confirmation of what I believe to be the case re: boost::filesystem and
> internationalization on windows.
> 
> I've been using boost::filesystem::directory_iterator to (amongst other
> things) recurse across a directory hierarchy, and on each item asking
> boost::filesystem::is_directory.
> 
> When a file or directory is encountered containing characters not
> representable using the ANSI char set (alright the MS ANSI charset) an
> exception is thrown. For example:
> 
> "boost::filesystem::is_directory: "Scratch561\ABCDE<internationized
> chars>MNOP": The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is
> incorrect."
> 
> This is presumably because the windows ANSI API calls are being used
> (the
> <API function>A variants).
> 
> Am I missing something, or is this a pretty severe limitation for
> windows?
> (I appreciate unix's don't suffer in this based on their api typically
> using
> UTF-8 encoding).
> 
> Thanks in advance for setting me straight/confirming my fears.
> Mark
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