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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2017-02-23 14:53 GMT+01:00 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.

Will OCE 0.18 fix the issue?

>
>> 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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