Problems with unicode file names

[Andre-John Mas]

Hi,

I have just noticed that file names with unicode characters can not be opened with TextPad. I was given some files the other day with Chinese file names. I tried opening them with English install of TextPad only to be told:

'e:\???\???????.lrc contains invalid characters'

This file can be opened with Notepad and WordPad and is displayed in the Explorer with the Chinese characters (I have the Chinese language pack installed).

[Andreas]

Have you tried dragging and dropping the file onto textpad?

[Andre-John Mas]

Just tried it, doesn't work either. To round up, I have tried the following, all with failure:
- dragging and dropping
- opening via open dialogue
- opening via a double-click in Explorer
It is possibile that MS added API extensions to deal with unicode files, that TextPad doesn't use.

[Gerrit Kiers]

Why don't you rename these files in the Explorer, give them (temporarily) English names. Surely that would make them accessible.

Then: If the files themselves contain UNICODE characters, you are up to another problem, since TextPad will not be able to read these files. Strangely enough TextPad can save a UNICODE file, but it cannot open one. Not even the one it just saved.

And why would it? I think anyone who defines a UNICODE file being no longer a text-file might have a point. Although for others the fact that the characters are unformatted still classifies it as a text-file. I would be genuinely interested to hear some expert-opinion on that.

Surely MS added API extensions to deal with UNICODE files. Unfortunately in such a way that the 9x/ME versions and the NT series (with it’s current distinction between HOME and PRO) seem all to have their own implementation

Gerrit