On Wed, 09 Sep 2009, Alexandr Okhotnikov wrote: Hi,
> Function working with files a lot (several dozen) and each must write > a wrapper, given codepage each platform and each locale? Nuance: No, you haven't. You wrote that you cannot open existing files with national characters what is not true and I sent the example to illustrate it. > passing a string (UTF8) in the function (eg, strfile ()), we may face > a situation where the called function (do not understand UTF8) > incorrectly processes the string. Exactly. But the same we can say about using UTF8 in file names at all. Some 3-rd part programs may not understand it correctly, i.e. it creates very serious problems when you have to share the same files using SMB volumes with MS-Windows stations. Any arbitrary translations to UTF8 or locale is very bad idea. It has to be programmer choice otherwise it may cause more troubles then help and create situations when Harbour really will not be able to open existing files. I know that you are asking about automatic UTF8<->HVM-CP conversions and of course as an option it's interesting solution though it does not resolve the problem in many cases, i.e. it will not enable any automatic translations in 3-rd party libraries linked with Harbour application but it can work only for our own code which operates on file system names so your above problem will still exists in applications using some 3-rd party extensions. Such translation will block opening files which are not valid UTF8 names or cannot be translated to HVM CP. It also does not resolve the problem with source code using UTF8 encoding. In fact we should have support for CP translation also in compiler so programmer can define encoding in source code as one of compile time switches. Now I do not have time and enough motivation to rewrite our CP code so if no one else does it then we will have to leave with it yet but I'll add hack with pseudo codepage called "UTF8" which can be used only for translations so you can set it as _SET_OSCODEPAGE. best regards, Przemek _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
