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| -rw-r--r-- | src/lib/util.cc | 8 |
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diff --git a/src/lib/util.cc b/src/lib/util.cc index e76b7aa67..e70440271 100644 --- a/src/lib/util.cc +++ b/src/lib/util.cc @@ -282,6 +282,14 @@ dcpomatic_setup () /* Dark voodoo which, I think, gets boost::filesystem::path to correctly convert UTF-8 strings to paths, and also paths back to UTF-8 strings (on path::string()). + + After this, constructing boost::filesystem::paths from strings + converts from UTF-8 to UTF-16 inside the path. Then + path::string().c_str() gives UTF-8 and + path::c_str() gives UTF-16. + + This is all Windows-only. AFAICT Linux/OS X use UTF-8 everywhere, + so things are much simpler. */ std::locale::global (boost::locale::generator().generate ("")); boost::filesystem::path::imbue (std::locale ()); |