std.path review: update

Lars T. Kyllingstad public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet
Thu Jul 21 02:27:55 PDT 2011


On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:20:16 +0100, Alix Pexton wrote:

> On 20/07/2011 20:57, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know whether Windows' case insensitivity is limited to
>> ASCII? If not, is the filesystem Unicode-aware, or does it uses some
>> locale specific codepage to compare file names?
>>
>> -Lars
> 
> Wikipedia says Windows long file names are up to 255 UTF-16 characters
> (or code points, depending which article you refer to >< ) Seems
> consistent with Microsoft's approach to character encoding throughout
> the rest of the Windows API.
> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_filename

Thanks!  In other words, fcmp() needs to do UTF-16 decoding...

-Lars


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