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Codepage problem in FileSel directory selection droplist [message #23251]

Mon, 05 October 2009 12:28

Tom1
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Registered: March 2007

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Hi,

I encountered a strange problem with the directory selection droplist of the FileSel dialog: The first entry is the home directory and is filled with dir.Add(GetHomeDirectory());. In the directory name a character '�' gets replaced by another character (German double S) when the application executable is started stand-alone, but when started with Ctrl+F5 from TheIDE, there is no problem.

To figure out what's going on, I changed the GetHomeDirectory functionality in App.cpp by changing GetEnv() as follows:

String GetEnv(const char *id)
{
//	return FromOEMCharset(getenv(id));
	return FromSystemCharset(getenv(id));
}

What happened was, the character '�' disappeared altogether when running the application from TheIDE, but was now correctly presented when the application was started as standalone.

Any idea what's going on here?

// Tom

[UPDATE: This is under Windows Vista x64 and the problem when running the application standalone was detected with 32 bit Windows XP, so they seem to have the same behavior.]

[Updated on: Mon, 05 October 2009 12:32]

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