[gdal-dev] UTF-8 String Support in GDALOpen() and OGRSFDriverRegistrar::Open()

[Lodewijk Pool]

Hi Chaitanya,

I appreciate you taking the time to check. The TAB extension is MapInfo's
vector file format. The odd thing is that I did exactly the same test as you
did, I renamed a GeoTiff file to the offending filename and tried the normal
Raster Driver and got the same problem. Still, as far as you aware these
functions should support UTF-8 encoded strings?  There could possibly be a
peculiarity in the way I pack UTF-8 strings, though I am reasonably certain
that they are encoded correctly.

Could you perhaps send me the code snippet you used to test the
functionality (the part where you pass the string to GDALOpen). Do you think
there is a chance that my compiled version may differ from your own, i.e. is
it possible that I compiled a version of GDAL without UTF support?

Best Regards,
Louis.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH
<chaitanya.ch at gmail.com>wrote:

> Louis,
>
> I couldn't reproduce the problem on my WinXP-32 system with vc8 with locale
> set to uk english. However, I used the filename on a GeoTiff file. I
> couldn't identify the .TAB extension. I am not sure that is a problem.
>
> Some of the drivers may not handle non-ascii data but file names should not
> be a problem.
>
> If you don't find any problem at your application side, submit a bug report
> at http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Lodewijk Pool <louis.pool at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Chaitanya,
>>
>> Yes, this is using the C/C++ API, the functions I am using are declared in
>> *gdal.h* and *ogrsf_frmts.h* respectively. I am using WinXP 32bit (UK
>> English locale) and a version of GDAL 1.6.2 that I compiled for Win32 using
>> the supplied nmake script files for VC8. The specific filename that is
>> causing me problems is this one; *"découpage_geographique.TAB"*. If I
>> remove the 'é' character in that string and replace it with a normal 'e' the
>> file opens without any problems.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Louis.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH <chaitanya.ch@
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Louis,
>>>
>>> GDAL/OGR usually supports utf-8 encoding. I just don't know where it
>>> doesn't support.
>>> Can you provide the details of the OS you are working on? Also, some
>>> sample file names that caused you problems will come handy.
>>> I presume you are working in C/C++.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Lodewijk Pool <louis.pool at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I'm having problems opening Raster and Vector Datasources that have
>>>> filenames and paths with special characters. I'm using GDALOpen for Raster
>>>> sources and OGRSFDriverRegistrar::Open() for Vector sources, the strings I
>>>> pass for the filenames are UTF-8 encoded. Does anyone know whether these
>>>> functions support UTF-8 encoding, and if not, whether there are any other
>>>> API entry points that do support UTF-8 and/or UTF-16?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance,
>>>> Louis.
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> --
>>> Chaitanya kumar CH.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Chaitanya kumar CH.
>
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