[pdal] Non-English characters

[Andrew Bell]

Also, can you provide the platform you're using on which you're having
problems?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In your example, the filenames don't have non-ascii characters, just the
> directory names. Do you have an example where the actual filenames are
> non-ascii that fails?
>
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 7:48 AM, <pidgeon13 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>>
>>
>> It seems to me that passing UTF-8 std::strings to the readers doesn’t
>> seem to work. I created a folder with foreign characters and placed a few
>> different points files inside, but am not getting a useful PointView when
>> executing the table (there’s either an exception thrown or there are no
>> points). These same files are read fine when they are in a purely English
>> folder path.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've attached a code snippet and the information from the strings that
>> are being passed to readerOptions.add(), if you want some more information
>> I can try to provide it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
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>> *From: *Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com>
>> *Sent: *15 January 2018 17:24
>> *To: *Stephen Pidgeon <pidgeon13 at googlemail.com>
>> *Cc: *pdal at lists.osgeo.org
>> *Subject: *Re: [pdal] Non-English characters
>>
>>
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>> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:13 PM, <pidgeon13 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am looking to allow non-English characters in pathnames when passing
>> them to PDAL readers, however inferReaderDriver and add(“filename”, .) both
>> accept std::strings as arguments. Does PDAL support using file paths that
>> include Unicode characters? Will I need to implement something with UTF-8?
>>
>>
>>
>> I believe that UTF-8 should work fine provided the drivers that open the
>> files can deal with it.  It's possible that we're doing some parsing of
>> paths that may not take this into account, but I'm not sure.  If you have
>> examples of this not working, let me know and I'll take a look.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Andrew Bell
>> andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
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> Andrew Bell
> andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com
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