Re: [xml] Default Catalog On Windows, Deprecated API

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:25:29PM -0600, Mark_Vakoc peoplesoft com wrote:
> I don't know how much that matters -- down the road libxml2 uses the C API
> (fopen. etc) which takes a const char* and does not support UTF-8 encoded
> filenames anyways, at least not the ms runtime, so even if you used the
> wide version of GetModuleFileNameW and converted it to UTF-8 the end result
> is that the C file apis would fail anywyas.  The only place that would
> benefit from that are custum i/o handlers that may properly use UTF-8
> encoded paths.

  Yeah, for paths it's an Operating System only issue. If the
C libraries APIs were (const char * + encoding) then libxml2
would have to handle encoding at those level, but as it is
filepaths don't have an encoding, it's just a zero terminated
array of bytes and we can't do anything at that level IMHO.

Daniel

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