fopen with UTF-8 chars in filenames

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:53:14PM -0700, Cary Jamison wrote:
>Paul J. Lucas wrote:
>>Is this known to work (or not work)?  Apparently, it doesn't.
>>
>>FYI: I'm writing JNI code.  The strings passed from Java to C are
>>UTF-8.  A string containing a non-ASCII character, e.g., an 'e' with an
>>accent, works fine with fopen() under Mac OS X.  The same JNI code
>>under Cygwin fails.
>
>I'm not positive about this, but you may have to convert the UTF-8 to
>UTF-16 (Windows unicode) and call wfopen() instead of fopen().  But
>wfopen() is a Windows call, not a cygwin call :-(

Which would strongly imply that calling wfopen was not the right
solution for Cygwin.

This is sort of like asking for an expert legal opinion on US law and
quoting Canadian law...

cgf

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