[Insight-developers] Unicode filenames and borland issue

[Bill Lorensen]

Tom,

I'll take a look. I'm running Windows XP.

Bill

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Tom Vercauteren <tom.vercauteren at m4x.org> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> As you may have noticed, I have committed a unit test to experiment
> with unicode filenames on windows:
>  http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Testing/Code/IO/itkUnicodeIOTest.cxx?root=Insight&view=markup
>
> Thanks to this webpage:
>  http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20633
> I have been able to test the code on borland c++ 5.5. I worked out
> without any issue.
>
> However on your system, it appears that the unit test is failing:
>  http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testDetails.php?test=36142693&build=468077
>
> Apparently, MultiByteToWideChar does not work as expected on you
> machine. Would you by any chance have a clue on why this is the case?
> What version of windows, and filesystem are you using? If you have a
> little spare time, could you try and experiment with itkUnicodeIOTest
> and see what it gives? You may want to try by commenting out the calls
> to removeAlpha and manually inspeting the txt files that are produced
> by the test.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>