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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/22/2017 10:01 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
>  I was looking into non-ASCII characters in file paths under Windows
> in hopes of at least fixing latent bugs in non-MCAD 3D plugins and
> IDF/VRML exports. Unfortunately the problem has proved much more
> difficult than I originally imagined.
> 
>  In MSVC, objects like std::fstream have an overloaded open() function
> which takes wchar_t and does the right thing. Since that overload is
> not part of the STL specification, it is not available in MSys2.
> 
>  It looks to me that the best path at the moment is to use some form
> of wxStream in place of std::ifstream/std::ofstream; however I would
> need to make some small test programs to verify that wxStream
> does the right thing; I suspect it does since richio does not demonstrate
> a non-ascii path problem.
> 
> Features currently affected by non-ascii path problems include:
> 1. STEP export (won't be fixed until appropriate newer versions of
>   OpenCascade or OCE are installed)

I guess we will have to wait until newer versions of oce are packaged to
get this fix.  Hopefully they will be readily available before the
stable 5 release so we don't have this bug in our stable release.

> 2. IDF and OCE 3D plugins (VRML plugins use richio and are not
>   affected)
> 3. IDF export
> 4. All IDF command-line tools
> 5. VRML export
> 
> Any comments/suggestions? Should I add this job to my list of things
> to do or do we just wait and hope this is all magically fixed within
> MSys2/Windows API?

Please add this to your list of things to do.  I don't think waiting for
msys2/windows api is wise.  I'm fine with fixing the one at at a time if
you don't have time to get to it all at once.  Thanks for looking into this.

Cheers,

Wayne

> 
> - Cirilo
> 
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