On May 1, 2008, at 10:43 AM, stephen joseph butler wrote:
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Matt Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
long.com>
wrote:
Stephen Butler pointed out that I need to use -[NSString
fileSystemRepresentation]. I have switched to this and it works. I
not real
familiar with this call, but it looks like it's working. I'll look
into why
this is the better choice. I'm just not familiar.
For almost all intents and purposes, it returns UTF-8, because
that's what
the APIs to HFS+, et al expect. However, it's conceivable that some
file
system might want path strings in another (legacy) format. Say,
Shift_JIS,
Big5, or KOI8-R.
I'm not sure any do. I'm not even sure the vfs layer allows the fs to
register a preference. But there's a function for it, so you might
as well
use it.
It's not that this varies from one file system to another on the same
machine, but rather that the BSD/Posix layer of APIs have a specific
representation for file system names, and this method insulates you
from the details of that representation.
Douglas Davidson
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