[gdal-dev] Unicode filenames

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ari Jolma wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> Is RFC 30 supposed to mean that using GDALOpen can be used with utf8 
> filenames? Are the changes made in trunk already?

Ari,

Yes, and Yes.

> I'm testing on Windows and I observe that opening a file using utf8 
> filename does not succeed due to OpenInfo creation failing (the filename 
> is still in utf8 at that point) and thus no driver picks up the file. 

I don't understand this.  Why would a utf-8 string interfere with the
creation of the GDALOpenInfo object?

> The code never gets to VSIWin32FilesystemHandler where recode to ucs2 
> happens.

Very early in the GDALOpenInfo constructor a call is made to VSIStatExL()
which should go to VSIWin32FilesystemHandler::Stat() in cpl_vsil_win32.cpp.
I don't know why this would not happen.

Thereafter the file is opened with VSIFOpen() which is implemented
in cpl_vsisimple.cpp and on WIN32 uses _wfopen() on a wchar_t string.

I presume you are using a visual studio build, not some other windows
compiler - right?

Best regards,
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