On 10/4/17 11:53 PM, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com
[firebird-support] wrote:
>
> On 04/10/17 22:15, DougC d...@moosemail.net [firebird-support] wrote:
>> Hamish-
>>
>> Windows short path names are decidedly NOT for apps that cannot
>> handle Unicode. They were introduced far earlier
Hello Hamish,
Thursday, October 5, 2017, 4:53:24 PM, you wrote:
[...] all that
Have you considered trying a symbolic link?
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
On 04/10/17 22:15, DougC d...@moosemail.net [firebird-support] wrote:
Hamish-
Windows short path names are decidedly NOT for apps that cannot handle
Unicode. They were introduced far earlier than that and were intended
for programs that could not handle anything but the short 8.3 limits
for
Short File names are to allow apps that can't support long file names
(LFN) to access a file. Long filename support includes wchar encoding.
If Firebird can't support wchar filenames, then it should NOT convert a
short filename to its LFN equivalent (unless there is some other very
important
Hamish-
Windows short path names are decidedly NOT for apps that cannot handle Unicode.
They were introduced far earlier than that and were intended for programs that
could not handle anything but the short 8.3 limits for any given file or folder
name. That they often help with avoiding
On 03/10/17 19:59, Dimitry Sibiryakov s...@ibphoenix.com
[firebird-support] wrote:
> 03.10.2017 2:25, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support]
> wrote:
>> Any ideas?
> Give up. Firebird does not support unicode characters in database name
> and path. Only ANSI.
>
>
03.10.2017 11:05, Kjell Rilbe kjell.ri...@marknadsinformation.se
[firebird-support] wrote:
> Forgive me for butting in, but... Perhaps it's high time to change FB
> then? Unicode is "everywhere" these days, and FB should keep up.
It is a lot of work, so the path
Dimitry Sibiryakov s...@ibphoenix.com [firebird-support] skrev:
> 03.10.2017 2:25, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support]
> wrote:
>> Any ideas?
> Give up. Firebird does not support unicode characters in database name
> and path. Only ANSI.
Forgive me for butting in,
03.10.2017 2:25, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com [firebird-support]
wrote:
> Any ideas?
Give up. Firebird does not support unicode characters in database name and
path. Only ANSI.
--
WBR, SD.
On 03/10/17 18:20, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com
[firebird-support] wrote:
But I can't figure out why the Windows short filename doesn't work -
it seems Firebird is converting it back somewhere, and then failing on
that?
isc_file.cpp converts the short filename back to a long
On 03/10/17 11:25, Hamish Moffatt ham...@risingsoftware.com
[firebird-support] wrote:
I'm trying to connect to a database with a filename containing Chinese
characters.
I tried passing a UTF-8 encoded filename, with the isc_dpb_utf8_filename
flag set. However, this is failing with a
I'm trying to connect to a database with a filename containing Chinese
characters.
The full path to my file is: C:\Users\汉密斯\AppData\Local\Rising
Software\data5cloud\rising5.fdb
I'm not able to connect to this filename - I'm always told that the path
name is wrong. I've tried using the full
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