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Re: Filenames chars
On Jun 14 10:53, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > As far as I remember, the call worked around a problem which happens
> > in codepage:oem case. In that case, the user enters filenames on the
> > console in the OEM specific charset but the GetFileSecurity function
> > always treats names as in ANSI charset without conversion. That's the
> > reason it's only used in read_sd.
>
> But what happens then if the filename is not read from the console
> but e.g. from a script?
Well, hmm, if the user is using codepage:oem throughout, the script
should theoretically contain the name in OEM charset, shouldn't it?
> > We seem to have a similar problem now with NtCreateFile. A conversion
> > from oem into the system character set seems to be necessary. The usual
> > call to sys_wcstombs in str2buf2uni is apparently not quite ok.
>
> Right. That's why I asked. I find all of that encoding very confusing.
> [Un]fortunately, I can't test any of that.
I have the same feeling about this. The codepage stuff is as worse an
invention as the textmode handling.
Corinna
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