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Reini Urban

Date:

May 16, 2008 05:45

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Re: on the almost impossibility to write correct XS modules

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2008/5/16 Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Marc Lehmann wrote:
>> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:55:40PM +0200, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>> From what I saw, however, filename handling on win32 is broken beyond
>> repair, as much of the win32 code overloads the utf-8 flag with the
>> additional meaning "unicode encoded, not ansi codepage" (see for example
>> almost all functions dealing with paths in Win32.xs).
>
> Why is this beyond repair? The problem of course is that Perl on Windows
> assumes that strings without the utf-8 flag are encoded with Latin-1
> encoding whereas they really are ANSI encoded. So once the automatic
> upgrading assumes ANSI encoding instead of Latin-1, everything should be
> working correctly, no?

To me the Win32 attempts also sounds fine, and I'm using it as template for
the upcoming wide char support within cygwin-1.7.

I make the same assumptions as the Win32 port, so we have to handle
the native IO with wchar_t * and the whole mb(=utf8)<->wide enchilada quirks.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/

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