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From: Kan-Ru Chen <kanru@kanru.info>
To: Martin Owens <doctormo@gmail.com>
Cc: Notmuch developer list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Unicode Paths
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:38:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739fzwxfv.fsf@isil.kanru.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315972539.2201.11.camel@delen> (Martin Owens's message of "Tue,  13 Sep 2011 23:55:39 -0400")

Martin Owens <doctormo@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Again,
>
> I notice in the lib code notmuch_database_open(),
> notmuch_database_create() these functions use const char *path for the
> directory path input. Is this unicode safe?
>
> The python bindings (and ctype docs) seem to suggest using something
> called 'wchar_t *' for accepting unicode but that's for C not C++.
>
> Is this something that should be patched?

I think as long as the path does not contain embedded null character
then it is safe. Most posix filesystem does not allow null character in
the filename so you cannot use UTF-16 or UTF-32 to encode the unicode
path.

-- 
Kanru

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-14  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-14  3:55 Unicode Paths Martin Owens
2011-09-14  4:38 ` Kan-Ru Chen [this message]
2011-09-15 16:52   ` Martin Owens
2011-09-15 17:52 ` Austin Clements
2011-09-16 10:58   ` Sebastian Spaeth

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