On Thursday 11 September 2014 08:12:52 z...@excite.it wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2014 07:14:54 Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote:
> > I've had a similar problem previously, with non-ascii (for instance
> > cyrillic) user names in app data dir on windows. The trick was to
> > use
> > 'wide char' win32 API functions which all return UTF-16 encoded
> > strings, then convert to UTF-8 (with g_utf16_to_utf8()).
> >
> > On 09/11/2014 03:25 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 10 September 2014 5:07:03 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > >> On Wednesday 10 September 2014 7:37:28 PM Geert Janssens wrote:
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm stuck on the following issue. Program is GnuCash on Windows.
> > >>>
> > >>> Consider the following code snippet:
> > >>>
> > >>> struct stat statbuf;
> > >>> gchar* dirname = g_strdup(g_getenv("GNC_DOTGNUCASH_DIR");
> > >>> gint rc = g_stat (dirname, &statbuf);
> > >>>
> > >>> switch (errno)
> > >>> {
> > >>>
> > >>> case ENOENT:
> > >>> // Directory doesn't exist
> > >>> // Here is code to create it which I cut for brevity
> > >>> break;
> > >>>
> > >>> case EACCES:
> > >>> // Directory can't be accessed
> > >>> exit(1);
> > >>>
> > >>> case ENOTDIR:
> > >>> // Not a directory
> > >>> exit(1);
> > >>>
> > >>> default:
> > >>> // Unknown error
> > >>> exit(1);
> > >>>
> > >>> }
> > >>>
> > >>> // Continue code with valid, existing directory
> > >>> ...
> > >>>
> > >>> So this snippet reads the value of environment variable
> > >>> GNC_DOTGNUCASH_DIR and tests whether this is a valid directory.
> > >>>
> > >>> This works fine when GNC_DOTGNUCASH_DIR uses a limited character
> > >>> set like ascii. For example when set to "c:\gcdev\geert" this
> > >>> works well and the code continues.
> > >>>
> > >>> However if set to for example:
> > >>> c:\gcdev\Łukasz
> > >>> Things go wrong (note the unusual Ł).
> > >>>
> > >>> In this case the code branches into case ENOENT and creates a
> > >>> directory named c:\gcdev\Lukasz (note the plain L now)
> > >>> Before it continues.
> > >>>
> > >>> Setting a breakpoint at rc=g_stat... and examining the value of
> > >>> dirname at that point also shows it to have a value of
> > >>> c:\gcdev\Lukasz (with plain L).
> > >>>
> > >>> So it seems I'm losing diacritical information here and I can't
> > >>> pass the right directory to my code to use.
> > >>>
> > >>> What should I do to get the real value from the environment to
> > >>> be able to access the true directory ?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>> Geert
> > >>>
> > >>> P.S. my locale settings are all "Dutch_Belgium.1252" except for
> > >>> LC_ALL which is empty.
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> > >>
> > >> Well gchar is a typedef for char so it only supports ascii. I
> > >> think you'll probably have to use Win32 API calls on Windows to
> > >> access multibyte file names.
> > >>
> > >> Also according to the documentation you should use GStatBuf
> > >> instead of struct stat on Windows to get consistent behaviour on
> > >> different compilers.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >
> > > Actually try using g_utf8_strncpy() instead of g_strdup(). I'm not
> > > sure if that'll get you all the way as the docs say g_stat calls
> > > the standard library functions and AFAIK those dont support
> > > unicode/multibyte filenames.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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>
> Hi,
> take a look at this code, maybe it helps:
>
> ZZ
>
> char *file_selector(char *title, GtkFileChooserAction fs_action,
> gboolean local_only, gboolean show_hidden, char *name, char *folder,
> char *shortcut_folder)
> {
> GtkWidget *dialog;
> char *tmp;
> char *filename = NULL;;
>
>
> tmp = g_locale_to_utf8((title) ? title : "", -1,NULL,NULL,NULL);
> dialog = gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new (tmp,
> /*parent_window*/
NULL,
> fs_action,
> GTK_STOCK_CANCEL,
GTK_RESPONSE_CANCEL,
> GTK_STOCK_OPEN,
GTK_RESPONSE_ACCEPT,
> NULL);
> xfree(&tmp);
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