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

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:54:12AM +0200, Roland Schwingel wrote:
> 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?

  That sounds excellent to me. I didn't expect a new release within a 
couple of weeks so even if it takes a bit of time it is not a big deal,

Daniel

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