[PATCH] [3/6] Add support for non-utf8 file names in Path.inc

[Eli Friedman]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Yunzhong Gao <
Yunzhong_Gao at playstation.sony.com> wrote:

> ygao added you to the CC list for the revision "[3/6] Add support for
> non-utf8 file names in Path.inc".
>
> Hi,
>
> File names on Windows may be system-locale encoded instead of UTF-8. For
> example, the default encoding on a Japanese Windows environment is
> shift-JIS.
> This patch modifies UTF8ToUTF16() to fall back to the OEM code page (system
> locale) when UTF-8 fails to match. UTF8ToUTF16() is renamed to
> ExternToUTF16()
> to reflect the new reality. This patch allows various llvm::sys::fs
> utilities
> like status() or exists() to be applicable on foreign Windows environment.
> This is part of a bigger effort to support foreign characters in file
> names.
>
> Could someone take a look whether this is good to go in?
>

String encodings aren't a guessing game; you can't just try encodings until
you find one that works.  We shouldn't be passing strings encoded in the
OEM codepage to the path APIs on Windows; please fix the code that is
passing in such strings.

-Eli
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