I have a couple of quick questions. I hope this is the correct forum to
address them.
Over the past 3 months, I have designed an app for Darwin/Mac OS X using
the POSIX API. I slapped a cocoa interface on it and it's been ported
to most Unixes. Recently I ran into the problem of STRING ENCODING
CONVERSION and have a couple of questions related:
a. My understanding of Darwin is that the File System uses Unicode
16byte strings, correct?
b. It is my understanding then that the commands open() and chdir() etc
are all expecting (or at least can handle) Unicode-16 strings under
Darwin?
c. I am receiving string data over a network encoded in Windows Latin 1
(ANSI codepage 1252) and I need to be sure that it is converted to the
local File System encoding.
- On OSX/Darwin, I have been using CFString functions to read the server
strings as kCFStringEncodingWindowsLatin1, and write them to local as
kCFStringEncodingUTF8. Is this OK? (vice versa going from Local to
server).
(when I tried using kCFStringEncodingUnicode it balked at my straight
ascii strings I sent the conversion function, and when I tried using
kCFStringEncodingASCII things didn't' convert right.) See CFString.h
for definitions.
- Any suggestions for how to convert when running on other
Unixes/Linuxes? Didn't find any posix commands to handle that, nor any
libraries on the web.
- I unfortunately wrote all my code using good old unsigned char*s
before realizing the problem of encodings, so moving my (relative small)
250 references to char* and associated logic to an abstracted string
object model (similar to CFString) would be a pain.
Thank you all for your time and help.
Eric Seidel
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