Re: [ft-devel] Patch: enable UTF8 path names on Windows

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Now I had to revisit this problem (because we use Freetype, and it
> can't open those files on Windows).  I did the same approach: on
> Windows, do not map ft_fopen directly to fopen(), instead map to a
> function that first tries fopen(), and if that fails converts path
> from UTF-8 into UTF-16 and tries _wfopen().
> 
> Attached a patch (against Freetype 2.2.1).

This is ooold.  The current version is 2.3.9, and I strongly suggest
to upgrade.

> Tested to compile (using Visual Studio 2003) and work on Windows.
> Might not work on Windows 9x systems though (they don't have Unicode
> support built in).

Thanks.  Can you make it more platform specific?  The right solution
IMHO is to provide a special ftstdlib.h version in builds/win32.  This
new header file would simply load the generic ftstdlib.h file, then
redefing the macros as needed.  Similarly, src/base/ftsystem.c should
not be tainted with platform specific stuff.  Again, a file ftsystem.c
should be generated in builds/win32.


    Werner