Re: [xml] Problems with file names in UTF-8 on Windows

[Roland Schwingel <Roland Schwingel onevision com>]

Hi...

The utf-8 support for Windows was my
idea and my patch, so I feel responsible for the problems

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:25:04AM +0400, Emelyanov
Alexey wrote:
> > 1. Updating library to new version results to incapacity for
work of 
> > programs, which use file names in
> >    native encoding; now all such programs are compelled
to transform 
> > file names to UTF-8
UTF-8 is IMHO the best choice to handle nowadays, but well I see the
problem... I think I will modify my patch to have
a fallback mode if 
UTF-8 file is not present/accessable.

> > 2. The library became incompatible with
Windows 95/98/ME, as functions 
> > _wfopen
> >    and _wstat use features not realized by default
in these versions of 
> > OS (bug #346367).
Ok.. I will adress that, too. Did not know that there is a bug report.

At present I am awfully busy, but I hope I can supply
my revised patch (based
on libxml 2.6.26) by beginning of next week.

I hope this will solve all problems with win9x and
non utf-8 encoding without
adding new api. Would this be ok for everyone?

Roland