From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:53:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Windows: Assume all file names to be UTF-8 encoded.
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903041151440.8926@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E709F076D2@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com>

John Dlugosz:

> Actually, UTF-8 is a valid code page on Windows.

Yes, but I am unsure whether it can be set as a thread locale for the sake 
of file APIs.

> Also, there is a national code page that =will= represent all file names 
> on the systems and is supported: That is the Chinese GB18030, code page 
> 54936.

Yeah, but unfortunately it is explicitly documented that it is only 
supported in MultiByteToWideChar, WideCharToMultiByte and some text painting 
APIs in Windows, i.e the stdio functions and others may break horribly.

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