Hi,

  I'm using platformstl::path on MinGW on Windows (via the Qt Creator IDE).
It redirects to using winstl::path. However, it seems to define path to use wide-char/Unicode encoding by default (for the file names for example).

How can I change this default?

As a workaround I changed to explicitly using winstl::path_a, but this is not portable to Unix/Linux.

Please advise,
Thanks,
Adi

IIRC it defines winstl::path as winstl::basic_path<TCHAR>, so it depends on the defin. of UNICODE.

Checking now ... yes, that's right.

  typedef basic_path<TCHAR, filesystem_traits<TCHAR> > path;

unixstl::path is defined as char, since the definition of UNICODE is not a done practice on UNIX. (Or if it is, that's a new one on me.)

I recognise that this is a little odd, but it was the best choice I could come up with. Have an open ear to other ideas ...


"Adi Shavit" <adishavit_thisDoesNotBelongHere_@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ib1o23$h5$1@digitalmars.com...
> Hi,
>
>  I'm using platformstl::path on MinGW on Windows (via the Qt Creator IDE).
> It redirects to using winstl::path. However, it seems to define path to
> use wide-char/Unicode encoding by default (for the file names for
> example).
>
> How can I change this default?
>
> As a workaround I changed to explicitly using winstl::path_a, but this is not portable to Unix/Linux.
>
> Please advise,
> Thanks,
> Adi
> 

So let me see if I get you correctly:

1. I want to use platformstl (and not winstl) for portability (to Linux).
2. I want to always work with chars
3. There seems to be no platformstl::path_a

I ended up doing this:

#ifdef UNICODE
#undef UNICODE
#include "3rdParty/stlsoft-1.9.101/include/platformstl/filesystem/path.hpp"
#define UNICODE
#endif

and use platformstl::path

Is this the right approach?

Suggestion: If platformstl::path_a was available it would have been simpler...

Thanks,
Adi

Matt Wilson Wrote:

> IIRC it defines winstl::path as winstl::basic_path<TCHAR>, so it depends on the defin. of UNICODE.
> 
> Checking now ... yes, that's right.
> 
>   typedef basic_path<TCHAR, filesystem_traits<TCHAR> > path;
> 
> unixstl::path is defined as char, since the definition of UNICODE is not a done practice on UNIX. (Or if it is, that's a new one on me.)
> 
> I recognise that this is a little odd, but it was the best choice I could come up with. Have an open ear to other ideas ...
> 
> 
> "Adi Shavit" <adishavit_thisDoesNotBelongHere_@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ib1o23$h5$1@digitalmars.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I'm using platformstl::path on MinGW on Windows (via the Qt Creator IDE).
> > It redirects to using winstl::path. However, it seems to define path to
> > use wide-char/Unicode encoding by default (for the file names for
> > example).
> >
> > How can I change this default?
> >
> > As a workaround I changed to explicitly using winstl::path_a, but this is not portable to Unix/Linux.
> >
> > Please advise,
> > Thanks,
> > Adi
> > 
> 
> 

Adi Shavit Wrote:

> So let me see if I get you correctly:
> 
> 1. I want to use platformstl (and not winstl) for portability (to Linux).
> 2. I want to always work with chars
> 3. There seems to be no platformstl::path_a
> 
> I ended up doing this:
> 
> #ifdef UNICODE
> #undef UNICODE
> #include "3rdParty/stlsoft-1.9.101/include/platformstl/filesystem/path.hpp"
> #define UNICODE
> #endif
> 
> and use platformstl::path
> 
> Is this the right approach?
> 
> Suggestion: If platformstl::path_a was available it would have been simpler...

Yuck! That's not good.

Point taken.

This is now done as you suggest.

Matt

"Adi Shavit" <adishavit_thisDoesNotBelongHere_@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ib9n4e$2m6l$1@digitalmars.com...
> So let me see if I get you correctly:
>
> 1. I want to use platformstl (and not winstl) for portability (to Linux).
> 2. I want to always work with chars
> 3. There seems to be no platformstl::path_a
>
> I ended up doing this:
>
> #ifdef UNICODE
> #undef UNICODE
> #include
> "3rdParty/stlsoft-1.9.101/include/platformstl/filesystem/path.hpp"
> #define UNICODE
> #endif
>
> and use platformstl::path
>
> Is this the right approach?
>
> Suggestion: If platformstl::path_a was available it would have been simpler...
>
> Thanks,
> Adi
>
> Matt Wilson Wrote:
>
>> IIRC it defines winstl::path as winstl::basic_path<TCHAR>, so it depends
>> on
>> the defin. of UNICODE.
>>
>> Checking now ... yes, that's right.
>>
>>   typedef basic_path<TCHAR, filesystem_traits<TCHAR> > path;
>>
>> unixstl::path is defined as char, since the definition of UNICODE is not
>> a
>> done practice on UNIX. (Or if it is, that's a new one on me.)
>>
>> I recognise that this is a little odd, but it was the best choice I could come up with. Have an open ear to other ideas ...
>>
>>
>> "Adi Shavit" <adishavit_thisDoesNotBelongHere_@gmail.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:ib1o23$h5$1@digitalmars.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >  I'm using platformstl::path on MinGW on Windows (via the Qt Creator
>> > IDE).
>> > It redirects to using winstl::path. However, it seems to define path to
>> > use wide-char/Unicode encoding by default (for the file names for
>> > example).
>> >
>> > How can I change this default?
>> >
>> > As a workaround I changed to explicitly using winstl::path_a, but this
>> > is
>> > not portable to Unix/Linux.
>> >
>> > Please advise,
>> > Thanks,
>> > Adi
>> >
>>
>>
>