[fpc-pascal] Unicode filenames

Mattias Gärtner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Mon Jun 30 11:57:20 CEST 2008


Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:

> 2008/6/30 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
> >
> > Can you test to create a chinese filename in the explorer. For example:
> >
> > ±±·½»°.txt
>
> I can't create that file in Windows Explorer. I'm using Windows 2000
> in a VMWare session. I opened explorer. Then copied the filename above
> to the clipboard from Linux (where Firefox and GMail runs).  The then
> go to Window VMWare session. Right Click and create now text file.
> Past the chinese name, which then seems to escape the name.

Maybe that's the way 'explorer' handles unsupported characters in the font.
Windows has still to go a long way for real unicode.


> When I
> press enter to confirm the name, Windows gives me an error.
>
> See the screenshot.
>   http://opensoft.homeip.net/~graemeg/test.png

Ok. Thanks for trying out. It's not that important. I think it's clear now, that
windows need the W functions.


> PS:
> I hope I got the Apache access permisions correct to my home folder.
> Let me know if there is a problem accessing the image, then I'll move
> it somewhere else on the web.

Works here.

Mattias




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