[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49118] GUI editor cannot run file in folder name with umlaut

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #34, bug #49118 (project octave):

Attached is a work in progress patch which enables changing to a directory
with non-ASCII chars in Windows for me (feature A from comment #32).

I think this was working for Umlaut characters before file #38798 (the
"cstrings-patch") was applied because our system codepage coincidentially was
latin-1 and we only tried with Latin-1 characters.

The patch converts the UTF-8 encoded path to UTF-16 and calls the wchar_t
variant of chdir (_wchdir) for Windows.

This is still "work in progress" because I definitely have the #if-conditions
wrong. Can someone please help me figure out which constants should be checked
(UNICODE, OCTAVE_USE_WINDOWS_API, ...)?
And more importantly: Is this the right way to do it? Most probably "mkdir",
"rmdir" and other functions that access the file system would need special
treatment for Win32 as well... 

(file #38898)
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File name: bug49118_win32_wchar_chdir.patch Size:2 KB


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