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Re: FSRef under Windows / loading files with special characters intheir filenames

Subject: Re: FSRef under Windows / loading files with special characters intheir filenames
From: Seth Porter <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:08:04 -0400
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The short-file-name trick doesn't work, sad to say -- QuickTime canonicalizes paths before it tries to open. The hard link approach generally works, though it requires NTFS. In previous builds, neither going through file URLs nor QTNewDataReferenceFromFullPathCFString seemed to actually make any difference, but this last update seems to have finally made things slightly better for non-working-codeset characters. Now I've got to decide if I can get away with the QT7 dependency just yet.

Unfixed as of my last testing are the long pathname situations (256 fails with a paramErr, 255 with a -43, but 254 now works, so at least things are getting better) and the UNC path problem ("\\SomeServer\SomeShare\SomeMovie.mov").

Seth

George Birbilis wrote:

Could try using the short filename version of the file (all files have such
names, autogenerated by the FAT32/NTFS filesystems), in case it helps. There
are OS functions if you want to map back and forth (get the short name from
the long one), but apps in general can use them interchangeably
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