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From:
Reini Urban
Date:
March 25, 2013 14:43
Subject:
Re: [perl #117265] [PATCH] e213661 no warnings 'safesyscalls', fatalnul checks
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51506290.4080707@cpanel.net
On 03/25/2013 09:35 AM, yves orton via RT wrote:
> On 25 March 2013 15:28, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:14 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Reini, on Win32 filenames are stored internally as UTF-16. What affect
>>> does your patch proposal have on opening files with widecharacters in
>>> them? (Widecharacters as you know could easily contain nuls).
>>
>> Perl uses legacy interfaces on Windows (that is, it accesses the
>> filesystem using 8-bit interfaces, the encoding is system-defined but
>> tends to be latin-1, which saves our ass most of the time).
>>
>> I'd consider this our number one Windows bug (because it screws up
>> badly when trying to open files with Unicode in their names), but
>> fixing this will be non-trivial, and few people have the appropriate
>> Windows knowledge anyway.
>
> Im just worried that Reinis null surpression might break something
> there. Sounds like you think we needn't worry on that point, as such,
> I wont. :-)

I'll test it.
win32ce for sure uses the wide api, and seems to use wide perl strings, 
which would break then, right. For win32 plain I guess It's some global 
settings which controls if the W or A version is used, and I see no 
translation from perl utf8 strings to the wide strings in win32/win32io, 
They are used asis.

And I'm not sure if -C allows using wide chars (seems to set only 
utf-8), or if wide locales are even valid.
I only know about nul-safe encodings, and -C was used to set wide until 
5.8.1 on windows. The -C wide API was disabled since then.

-- 
Reini

Working towards a true Modern Perl.
Slim, functional, unbloated, compile-time optimizable

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