On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 2:40 PM Tobias Klein <cont...@tklein.info> wrote:
> Thanks for giving me the background on this, Karl! I appreciate it! > > Is Xiphos the only frontend that has been patching Sword for this purpose? > Then I suppose all other frontends suffer from this issue, huh? > > Thanks for putting in the work to make Sword behave well with non-ascii > path names! > > > > Best regards, > Tobias > > > > *From: *Karl Kleinpaste <k...@kleinpaste.org> > *Sent: *Sonntag, 19. Juli 2020 15:23 > *To: *SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel@crosswire.org> > *Subject: *Re: [sword-devel] Win32 FileMgr Subclass > > > > On 7/18/20 1:53 PM, Tobias Klein wrote: > > No, I have not tested my code properly with non-ascii characters in paths > / file names. > > > The original cause for the Xiphos patch to Sword was because, 11 years ago > when we introduced the Win32 port, as GnomeSword was renamed Xiphos, one of > our first new Windows users was a fellow in Spain who wanted to review it. > His name was Reuvén, and that was his login name on his Windows machine. > So of course the path C:\Users\Reuvén was involved, and that 'é' is what > killed us. > > What dies here is Sword itself. Xiphos was fine, being already based on > glib, but Sword's collapse came as soon as Xiphos made its first filesystem > call. The patch glib-ifies Sword, where glib works rather hard at hiding > the UTF16 boundary from the application. > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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