Re: [PD-dev] UTF-8 problems on Windows

-- David Shimamoto (2012/12/07 12:06), Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > I am pretty sure I found the root cause of it. Windows uses UCS-2 as its character encoding, but Pd is all UTF-8 internally. Tcl is also all UTF-8, so that works nicely. I believe that GNU/Linux and Mac OS X use UTF-8 for filenames as well. > > It looks like the solution is converting the filenames from UTF-8 to UCS-2 (16-bit wchar_t) whenever there is an open() call, and using _wopen() instead. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3298569/difference-between-mbcs-and-utf-8... > > .hc > > On Dec 6, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > >> Hi Hans >> >> I probably have nothing useful to add, but just last week I got a report >> from someone using a patch of mine on Windows, experiencing troubles >> with opening certain sound files. It turned out, that it was also >> related to non-ASCII characters in the name of those files. Pd didn't >> crash, though, but the sound files didn't load. I hadn't have the >> opportunity to look at it myself yet (no access to a win comp), but I'm >> glad to see it confirmed. I'd be happy to see it fixed, though probably >> my only contribution would be limited to testing. >> >> Roman >> >> >> On Mit, 2012-12-05 at 23:14 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> There is a problem on Windows that has me stumped. If you open a file with a non-ASCII character in the name or path using "pd -open" it works fine. If you open it using File -> Open, then it freezes Pd. If you print the filename to the Pd window right before its sent to Pd, it prints properly: >>> >>> C:/Documents and Settings/pd/Desktop/comma,coüüümma.pd >>> >>> But running "pd.com -d 3" shows: >>> >>> pd open comma,co├╝├╝├╝mma.pd C:/Documents\ and\ Settings/pd/Desktop; >>> open: C:/Documents and Settings/pd/Desktop/comma,co├╝├╝├╝mma.pd: No such file or directory >>> comma,co├╝├╝├╝mma.pd: No such file or directory >>> >>> So somewhere in the network receiving the unicode is going wrong, but only on Windows. Its a bad bug for anyone who uses non-ASCII letters on Windows. Any ideas? >>> >>> .hc >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pd-dev mailing list >>> Pd-dev@iem.at >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-dev mailing list >> Pd-dev@iem.at >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > Pd-dev@iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev >