Sent from my iPhone On Jun 13, 2012, at 3:22 AM, "Steve Hay via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Tue Jun 12 08:41:15 2012, kartlee05 wrote: >> >>> That was mistake on my part not to pass WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS in acutal >>> conversion call from UTF-16 to ACP. I will revise the patch and sent >> it >>> now. >>> >>> BTW, I don't think the win32 code would really work if UTF-8 is >>> internally used for conversion. I see we use lot of calls toUpper, >>> tolower which would not really work with utf-8 directly. So it is good >>> if ACP is used. >>> >>> -Karthik >> >> I now fixed the patch to use WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS in the actual >> conversion call. Please give a shot. >> > > I think there is a bug in this and the previous patch (but not your > original one): the calculation of 'wenvstrings_len' wrongly sets 'size' > to 1 at the start of the for-loop, but never uses 'size' again. It > should have set 'wenvstrings_len' to 1 instead, otherwise that ends up > with the wrong value and causes many, many tests to fail when running > the full regression test suite. > > After changing > > for(size = 1; *lpWTmp != '\0'; lpWTmp += env_len + 1) { > > to > > for(wenvstrings_len = 1; *lpWTmp != '\0'; lpWTmp += env_len + 1) { I agree. I have not taken care for the additional null char to indicate the end of environment strings in my last two patches. I will add this now and resend. > > the patch looks good to me code-wise, but I will await any further input > from bulk88 before committing. > > Could you also fix up a couple of the comments, though, please? The > comment about converting from UTF-16 to UTF-8 should say *to the ANSI > codepage* instead. You also use C++ style comments in two places, but > perl always uses C style comments since most files are C and not all C > compilers accept C++ style comments. Sure, I will do that and send you in an hour. -KarthikThread Previous | Thread Next