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Re: Encoding to use for file names
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Re: Encoding to use for file names


  • Subject: Re: Encoding to use for file names
  • From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:42:25 -0600


On Feb 5, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Francis Devereux wrote:

Hi,

I am porting an app to Mac OS X (well, actually someone else has ported it and I am building a cocoa GUI).

I have an NSString with a filename in it that I need to pass to the portable code as a char *. The portable code will then pass it to UNIX file handling functions like fopen().

I guess that I need to use NSString's getCString:maxLength:encoding: method, but what should I pass for the encoding parameter? Phrased another way, what encoding does fopen() expect filenames to be in?


Don't use getCString:maxLenght:encoding: - use NSString's fileSystemRepresentation - it will do the right thing for encoding, surrogate pairs, decomposition, etc...

Glenn Andreas                      email@hidden
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