Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 23:20 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:41:15PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 19:03 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > > > > > I can only speak for Cygwin. I don't know for Windows in general, but > > > I think that it is also dependent on the filesystem (FAT32 or NTFS). > > > > I had the hope that it was better as on linux, but if this is true it seems > > to be even worse :-( > > It seems that MS doesn't care about standards (what a surprise): > http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/09/10/748699.aspx > > You may also find a worth reading here (it mentions Windows FS, too): > http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/global/products_platforms/solaris/reference/presentations/IUC29-FileSystems.pdf
Thanks, that is a useful summary. > > So that means if we convertz to the encoding of the currently set windows > > locale it will work? That would be doable. > > I think this is what the Qt QString::toLocal8Bit() does. Yes, I think so, too. I wonder what the difference to QFile::encodeName() is? Georg
