[Insight-developers] Unicode filenames and borland issue

[Bill Lorensen]

I'll take a look at vs6 later today.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Tom Vercauteren
<tom.vercauteren at m4x.org> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Just realized that the Borland test I used was slightly different,
> sorry about that.
>
> I do indeed get the same error. It looks like borland does not
> understand notations like
>   L"\u03B1.txt"
> for wide strings.
>
> Replacing this notation with a more intricate one
>  http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Testing/Code/IO/itkUnicodeIOTest.cxx?root=Insight&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
> fixes the borland failing test:
>  http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight&date=2009-11-10#Continuous
>
> Now comes my dear friend vs6 :(
>  http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewBuildError.php?buildid=468753
> Using streams seems difficult with that compiler. Is there a
> recommended way for handling this kind of errors?
> * use iostreams from kwsys
> * try adding some typedefs as in
> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Code/Common/itkSymmetricSecondRankTensor.h?root=Insight&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
> * replace "std::XXstream" with "std::basic_XXstream<char,
> std::char_traits<char> >" as proposed in
> http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/resiprocate-devel/msg01085.html
> * something else
>
> I could try these approaches but will need to it it blindly as I don't
> have access to VS6.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:34, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What BUILD_TYPE are you using. I use MinSizeRel.
>>
>> I do not build shared libraries on Borland.
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>