From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Possible Bug (clarification) in Cygwin 1.7.5 -- findfirstfile (and findnextfile) yeild bad cfilename when file names have special characters. Works in cygwin 1.5, fails in 1.7
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB30DF9.2080006@cwilson.fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <135801cc9a69$f73ceaf0$e5b6c0d0$@vaultnow.com>
On 11/3/2011 4:48 PM, Leon Vanderploeg wrote:
> With cygwin 1.7.5, cFileName with a special characters such as ñ (n
> with tidle above it) fail be properly extracted from a
> WIN32_FIND_DATA structure with findFirstFile (or findNextFile).
>
> To set up a simple test scenario, I created a file in C:\Testing
> named Mañana.docx. I compiled the code at the end of this message
> on Cygwin 1.7.9 with GCC version 3.4.4 on Server 2008 32 bit system.
> On this system (and on a Windows 7 32 bit machine), it returns:
a) Why are you using native Win32 APIs in a cygwin program? You should
be using the POSIX interfaces instead -- see /usr/include/dirent.h.
DIR *opendir (const char *);
DIR *fdopendir (int);
struct dirent *readdir (DIR *);
int readdir_r (DIR *, struct dirent *, struct dirent **);
void rewinddir (DIR *);
int closedir (DIR *);
b) What you observe is an artifact of cygwin-1.7's new *support* for
i18n. In cygwin-1.5, it just didn't care and passed all the bytes back
exactly as found without transliteration. In 1.7, it (correctly)
transcodes strings into the current locale -- and your current locale
does not appear to support ñ -- or, at least, you haven't told cygwin to
use the correct one.
(I'm probably thoroughly botching this explanation, but the point is,
you need to check your LC_* and LANG env vars, and maybe call
setlocale(LC_ALL, "") in your application.)
--
Chuck
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-03 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-03 20:49 Leon Vanderploeg
2011-11-03 21:56 ` Charles Wilson [this message]
2011-11-04 8:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-11-10 5:19 ` Leon Vanderploeg
2011-11-10 9:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-11-10 10:09 ` Corinna Vinschen
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