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Re: Finder Info


  • Subject: Re: Finder Info
  • From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:50:43 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:58:39 +0200, Uli Kusterer said:

>>>      const UInt8 *cpath = (const UInt8 *)[path
>cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
>>
>> -UTF8String is shorter.
>
> Both of these are wrong, though. You should *always* use -
>fileSystemRepresentation when you need a C-string representation of a
>path. Otherwise you might get decomposed characters that don't match the
>actual way the characters are stored on disk, and will create a second
>file with an almost-indistinguishable name.

Could you provide an example filename where UTF8String and fileSystemRepresentation give something different?  I'd like to run it through QA...

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Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada



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