19 Nov
2004
19 Nov
'04
7:46 p.m.
At 11:16 AM 11/16/2004, John Maddock wrote:
... Not all wide character sequences can be represented as a narrow character
one (depending upon the encoding used), and if the underlying OS uses narrow character strings as path names (unix), and the wide character sequence can not be converted, then the file can not exist, so we get an error either which way.
Notice too that if a narrow character path O/S is very restrictive as to what characters can appear in a path, then common encodings usually viewed as quite portable wouldn't work for that O/S. --Beman