[Issue 8020] std.stdio can't open UTF16 file names in Windows

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8020



--- Comment #5 from Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> 2012-05-04 07:48:07 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Dmitry, we should not assume the name string is in UTF8, it may be also some
> another 8-bit code page in being supported in Windows, like 125x and so on.
> Such encoding should be done by application itself.

Nope, char is UTF-8 codeunit period. See TDPL, language spec etc. 
Legacy one-byte encodings should be transfered in bytes/ubytes whatever. BTW
NTFS is UTF-16 (or subset of it).

> What I think is to have File/open/popen( wstring, string mode ) which should 
> care about UTF16 names. Surprisingly I found some links in DMC includes to
> _wfopen receiving wchar_t which should exacly help here.

Then someone just needs rig current std.file to call toUTF16/toUTFz (see
std.uni) and forward the result to the right _wfopen on win32. UTF-16 been the
defacto standard in Windows for a looong time. This is all is just embarracing.

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