On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:34:08PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 06:22:50PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: >>> Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >>>> On 04/10/2008 14:13, Peter Kümmel wrote: >>>>> Until we know a better way to get the long path name >>>>> I've checked in the patch: >>>>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/26718 >>>>> (bug http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4693) >>>> Why did you you choose the 8bit encoding version? I'd prefer that >>>> you use the wide version of it because I am forecasting that this >>>> will not work for non latin file names, or just use the same macro >>>> as what's done in the Qt source. >>> Does this mean the lyx code is also wrong? >>> Or is the comment correct? >>> "// We can use to_local8bit, since file system encoding and the >>> // local 8 bit encoding are identical on windows." >> >> I am not sure what happens on a, say, Chinese Vista. >> >> Andre' >> > > We should have a Qt function, then we don't have to think about it. ;)
File a suggestion and send me a link. 4.5 is in feature freeze, though, so this won't hit the shelves before next summer, then it takes a year to be picked up by the distributions and two more years to reach LyX. So that would be a 2012 improvement ;-} Andre'
