[Insight-developers] Unicode filenames and borland issue

[Bill Lorensen]

My first try with VS6 is not encouraging. I suggest that we instrument
the code so that VS6 ITK cannot use Unicode.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
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