Re: [ft-devel] [PATCH 2/2] [cmake] add support for customized ftsystem on Windows

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Now the question is whether this is appropriate for FreeType to deal
> with UTF-8 filenames on Windows, which does not itself use UTF-8
> filenames, which are, therefore, superfluous.

Exactly.  The very issue is that the `pathname' field in
`FT_Open_Args' is of type `FT_String*'.  It would have been better to
use a separate `FT_PathString*' type that can be adapted to the
OS with a #define in `ftstdlib.h' or a similar file.

> The user should work with native UTF-16LE filenames on Windows to
> begin with.  Then the use might as well open the stream with _wfopen
> by himself and call FT_Open_Face for the stream.  Done.

Yes.  Perhaps it is sufficient to document this limitation?


    Werner