Is there any possibility to URL-encode the chars? E.g. %20 for space etc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Porter [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 5:08 PM
> To: George Birbilis
> Cc: email@hidden; 'Alexis Glass';
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> Subject: Re: FSRef under Windows / loading files with special
> charactersintheir filenames
>
> 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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