On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:09:02 +0200, Peter Dimov wrote:
Alexander Lamaison wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:48:43 -0800 (PST), Artyom wrote: ... Two problems with this approach:
- Even if the encoding under POSIX platforms is not UTF-8 you will be still able to open files, close them, stat on them and do any other operations regardless encoding as POSIX API is encoding agnostic, this is why it works well.
This isn't a problem, right? This is exactly why it _does_ work :D Assume the strings are in OS-default encoding, don't mess with them, hand them to the OS API which knows how to treat them.
It doesn't always work. On Mac OS X, the paths must be UTF-8; the OS isn't encoding-agnostic, because the HFS+ file system stores file names as UTF-16 (much like NTFS).
Presumably, Mac OS X returns paths in the same encoding as it expects to receive them? So just passing them around and eventually back to the OS will always work regardless of encoding? Alex -- Easy SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org)