[Shapelib] Re: shapelib improvements

[Bram de Greve]

I guess I mixed up my text a little =)

It should read:

Still, I don't know what encoding to use ...  UTF-8 certainly doesn't work.  If I want to create file with as name the symbol pi (\u03C0), and I pass it as an UTF-8 encoded string (\xcf\x80), fopen will create a file with the name π (I hope that comes through, that's \xcf\u20ac).  Instead - If I read the documentation right - Windows will use an ANSI codepage depending on the user's regionale (CP_ACP).  In my case, I guess that's ANSI 1252, and that can't represent the symbol pi (well, the encoding just converted it to the letter p).

Bram


Bram de Greve wrote:
> Still, I don't know what encoding to use ...  UTF-8 certainly doesn't
> work.  If I want to create file with as name the symbol pi (\u03C0), and
> I pass it as an UTF-8 encoded string (\xcf\x80), fopen will create a
> file  If I interpret the documentation well, on Windows, fopen accepts
> the filename in an ANSI encoding that can vary depending on the user's
> regionale settings.  In my case I guess that would be ANSI 1252, but I'm
> not sure where I can check that!  And the symbol pi  won't fit in that
> encoding (of course, I might be missing something here).  A good
> encoding would be UTF-8 (pi = , but fopen won't accept that.  Well, it
> _will_ accept that, but it will create a file with the name π (I hope
> that comes through, that's \xcf\u20ac).  Instead - If I read the
> documentation right - Windows will use an ANSI codepage set by the
> user's regionale (CP_ACP).  In my case, I guess that's ANSI 1252, and
> that can't represent the symbol pi (well, the encoding just converted it
> to the letter p).
>