From: Jarek Kubos <jkubos@...>
Date: 2008-09-05T22:15:24+09:00
Subject: Re: win32 unicode filename support?

Hi,

Is there any new progress in support of unicode filenames? Plans?

Bill: Did you find another solution?

Daniel Berger wrote:
> On Feb 12, 9:49 pm, "Bill Kelly" <b...@cts.com> wrote:
>> > Since File.open isn't redefined in win32-file, it won't make a
>> > difference one way or the other. :)
>> [...]
>> > I provided a couple helper methods for
>> > that - multi_to_wide and wide_to_multi, that handles the most typical
>> > cases.
>>
>> Sorry if I've misunderstood your post - but does this mean
>> that there's currently no way to open/create a file with a
>> unicode filename with the win32 tools?
> 
> At the moment, no.
> 
>> Or does this mean
>> that the multi_to_wide methods already exist, and that I
>> should be using those?
> 
> Even with multi_to_wide you would still have to define the wide
> character functions yourself because I haven't done it yet in windows-
> pr. I'm doing it right now, but it will be some time before I'm
> finished. We're talking hundreds of functions here.
> 
> But, you could do use a mix of windows-pr functions and custom defined
> functions using Win32API. I'll provide a sample later this week when I
> get some more time.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan

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