[LLVMdev] Question about non-UTF-8 filesystems

[Rafael Espíndola]

On 15 August 2013 01:11, Christoph Cullmann <cullmann at absint.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems that e.g. on Windows, where the filename encoding is not UTF-8, it is impossible
> to use any filenames containing e.g. german umlauts or chinese characters, because
> the in LLVM used encoding collides with the encoding used by the OS.
>
> There is a open bug for this http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=10348
>
> It seems there were patches submitted to fix it, but they were never applied as some more
> generic rewrite of the file handling subsystem was in the works.
>
> Is that still the case or is there a chance that the old patches could be revived and
> applied?
>
> For any user on Windows with e.g. a german umlaut in the username, this is a serious issue,
> as most file handling in the c:\users\<name> directory won't work.

The transition to the new path library is completed. Do you still have
issues with current trunk?

Cheers,
Rafael